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

CARMEN G ECHOLS

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Family Medicine

NPI
1427210442
CMS profile
109742
Location
LITHONIA, GA

General Payments · PY2018–2020

$725.05

  • Reported across 40 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2020

$207.44

11 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

PY2020 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $207.44 11

By paying entity

PY2020 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Lilly USA, LLC $72.52 3
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $65.04 3
Novo Nordisk AS $51.87 4
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $18.01 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $491.53 27
PY2019 $26.08 2
PY2020 $207.44 11

Payment records · PY2020 (11)

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

Program year 2020 20182019 Record-level detail is published for PY2020; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $18.01 01/23/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 720861657 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $24.49 06/02/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 719069639 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $17.13 10/12/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 719069641 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $23.42 10/30/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 719069643 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $4.00 01/29/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 728357531 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $11.42 01/29/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 728371285 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $57.10 01/29/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 728374609 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $13.45 02/12/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 744672097 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $13.08 03/05/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 744627051 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $11.48 03/11/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 744687043 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $13.86 04/20/2020 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 744698321 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2020_P01232026_01102026.csv

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