Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

GEORGE J AZAR

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Surgery

NPI
1376632307
CMS profile
153504
Location
HATTIESBURG, MS

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$9,069.35

  • Reported across 188 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$434.35

22 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $434.35 22

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $364.16 20
PY2019 $5,820.62 39
PY2020 $448.21 20
PY2021 $408.08 27
PY2022 $434.94 29
PY2023 $1,158.99 31
PY2024 $434.35 22

Payment records · PY2024 (22)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $17.75 01/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103257011 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $13.75 02/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103257013 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $20.18 05/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103257015 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $16.02 08/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103257017 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $19.27 11/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103257019 CMS
Acera Surgical, Inc. $40.83 06/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1152412410 CMS
Astellas Pharma US Inc $13.36 05/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1139349538 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $14.21 01/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086258118 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $16.08 03/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086264285 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $17.97 05/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086126142 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $16.97 07/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086122306 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $18.12 10/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086245708 CMS
CIVCO Medical Instruments $17.83 07/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1150062476 CMS
Davol Inc. $69.34 08/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1127666532 CMS
Ethicon US, LLC $14.26 09/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077637028 CMS
Mission Pharmacal Company $16.78 04/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1068139058 CMS
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $15.63 05/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1148823249 CMS
TELA Bio, Inc. $11.74 01/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154191473 CMS
TELA Bio, Inc. $14.12 03/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154191475 CMS
TELA Bio, Inc. $11.21 04/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154191477 CMS
TELA Bio, Inc. $11.05 07/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154191479 CMS
Tempus AI, Inc $27.88 11/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1150160654 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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