Doctor Anna Kezerashvili specializes in cardiovascular disease. She has a clinic with other doctors that provide treatment to young adults and older people. During her years serving as a doctor there have been certain companies that pay her for food and beverages and for specific medicine she provides to her patients. Some of those companies are BIOTRONIK, Gilead sciences INC, Regeneron healthcare solutions INC, Amgen INC. These companies pay her meals when she has a conference or a meet up with someone from their company to provide training or even to discuss benefits for her patience. She also gets paid for the medicine she uses from those companies and provides free samples to her patients and emergencies. She has received this benefit since 2013 and the records reflect the amount of money she received in 2018 for a total amount of $1144.

In my opinion there are some reasonable explanations for the amount that sometimes the company spends for food and beverages. However, there are other amounts that do not actually reflect where it is coming from and the majority of those are a higher amount compared to the other. Dr. Kezerashvili is my cardiovascular doctor and all treatments she provided to me did actually make a difference in my heart. As i said before i have seen doctors in her clinic give free samples to their patients and their attention is really good for that reason i can say this is something that can not just benefit the doctors but also their patients.

• Mike Tigas, Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein, Lena Groeger, ProPublica. (n.d.). Dollars for Docs. ProPublica. https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/doctors/pid/329278
• Open Payments Data – CMS. (n.d.). https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/329278