Dr. George Sidney Staton, MD

  • Valdosta, GA
  • Cardiologist
NPI1215990098PAC ID4587796404
Medicare services, 2024
12,414
Medicare patients, 2024
2,239
Part D claims, 2024
14,494
Hospital affiliations
5
Industry payments
$843
Practice address
410 Connell Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602
Practice phone
Call (229) 244-1570
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Primary practice

Southwell Ambulatory Inc

Valdosta, Georgia

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Dr. George Sidney Staton is a cardiologist in Valdosta, Georgia

Dr. Staton practices at Southwell Ambulatory Inc in Valdosta, Georgia.

Dr. Staton's NPI, 1215990098, was assigned on April 11, 2006. Dr. Staton graduated from Mercer University School of Medicine in 2003. Dr. Staton holds Georgia license 63539.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
4587796404
NPI enumeration date
April 11, 2006
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(229) 244-1570
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
49
Medical school graduation
2003

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Practice Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)

Dr. George Sidney Staton practices at Southwell Ambulatory Inc in Valdosta, Georgia

Dr. Staton's primary practice is Southwell Ambulatory Inc, at 410 Connell Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602 in Lowndes County. The practice phone is (229) 244-1570.

  • Southwell Ambulatory Inc
    410 Connell Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602 · Lowndes CountyPhone(229) 244-1570

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); and Dmand AI Practice Data

Dr. George Sidney Staton is affiliated with 9 sites of care and 3 medical groups

Dr. Staton's primary practice is Southwell Ambulatory Inc in Valdosta, Georgia. Dr. Staton is also affiliated with SGMC Health Main. The medical group on file is SGMC Health. Dmand AI also links Dr. Staton to 4 more hospitals, 3 group practices and clinics and 2 medical groups, each named with a free account.

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Practice Data; and Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. George Sidney Staton's practice

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Staton practices, 8 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Southwell Ambulatory IncAvailable with a free account
+8 more sites and 2 medical groupsAvailable with a free account

Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data

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Dr. George Sidney Staton is one of 665 cardiologists in Georgia

Cardiovascular disease is Dr. Staton's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RC0000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Staton's licenses on file in 2 states: Georgia and North Carolina.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Cardiovascular disease, GeorgiaPrimaryLicense 63539 · taxonomy 207RC0000X
  • Internal medicine, North CarolinaLicense 2006-00103 · taxonomy 207R00000X

Clinical focus

Dmand AI lists aneurysm, angioplasty, atrial fibrillation and flutter, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac catheterization, cardiomyopathy, cerebrovascular disease and chronic hypertension among the conditions Dr. Staton treats.

Cardiologists near Dr. Staton

Counts of cardiologists with a Dmand AI profile, by place and practice. Each opens the list.

665cardiologists in Georgia
6cardiologists in Valdosta

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. George Sidney Staton billed Medicare for 12,414 services in 2024

CMS data shows 12,414 Medicare services from Dr. Staton across 39 procedure codes in 2024, for 2,239 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $549,511 for them.

Medicare services, 202412,414
Medicare patients2,239
Paid by Medicare$549,511
Procedure codes39

Dr. Staton's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Tests and treatments
2023: 7,7392024: 7,5912%
Office and hospital visits
2023: 4,2352024: 4,2981%
Lab and pathology
2023: 3062024: 3012%
Imaging
2023: 2262024: 19812%
Surgery
2023: 202024: 2630%

Where Dr. Staton's Medicare services took place, 2024

  • In an office8,73570%
  • In a facility3,67930%

Dr. Staton compared with the Georgia median for cardiologists, 2024

  • Dr. Staton
  • Georgia median
Medicare services
12,414vs 1,7547.1 times
Medicare patients
2,239vs 7353.0 times
Part D claims
14,180vs 2,4675.7 times

Medians across 637 cardiologists in Georgia with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Dr. Staton's most billed Medicare procedure codes, 2024

CMS publishes codes billed for 11 or more Medicare patients. Each label is the code family; CPT descriptions are licensed by the AMA.

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Sources: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS), 2024 data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. George Sidney Staton treated 2,239 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 75

CMS counts 2,239 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Staton in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 885 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 13% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.45, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Staton's median patient age at 74, with 51% women.

Medicare patients, 20242,239
Average age75
Average risk score1.45
Also on Medicaid13%

Dr. Staton's Medicare patients by age, 2024

Dr. Staton's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women1,13851%
  • Men1,10149%

Chronic conditions among Dr. Staton's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. High blood pressure75%
  2. High cholesterol75%
  3. Arthritis55%
  4. Ischemic heart disease51%
  5. Diabetes40%
  6. Chronic kidney disease36%
  7. Atrial fibrillation33%
  8. Anxiety28%

Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.

Dr. Staton's patients across all payers

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Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 74

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women51%
  • Men48%

Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. George Sidney Staton wrote 14,494 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Staton wrote 14,494 Medicare Part D claims for 1,382 patients. 87% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 14,180 of them, across 83 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $1,494,303 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 12,689 claims across 81 drugs.

Part D claims, 202414,494
Drugs named by CMS83
Total drug cost$1.5M
Part D patients1,382

Dr. Staton's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic12,587 claims87%
  • Brand-name and other1,907 claims13%

Dr. Staton's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2024

CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.

Drug classes CMS tracks in Dr. Staton's Part D claims, 2024

  • Antibiotics1%97 of 14,494 claims

Share of all Part D claims for each drug class CMS reports on. Classes with no claims are left out.

Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Claims for drugs CMS names
2023: 12,6892024: 14,18012%

Drugs named by CMS: 83 in 2024, 81 in 2023.

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Sources: Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS), 2024 data, released May 6, 2026; and Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. George Sidney Staton ranks in the 76th percentile for coronary angioplasty and stenting in Medicare

Dr. Staton accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 40 procedures of coronary angioplasty and stenting by Dr. Staton, more than 76% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Where Dr. Staton ranks in Medicare procedure volume

Coronary angioplasty and stenting
76th percentile40 procedures
Pacemaker insertion or repair
72nd percentile22 procedures

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Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS)

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Dr. George Sidney Staton received $843 in industry payments from 2016 to 2023

CMS Open Payments shows 31 general payments to Dr. Staton from 16 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2023. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 64% of the total. Medtronic, Inc. paid the most, $412.

General payments to Dr. Staton by program year, 2016 to 2023

General payments to Dr. Staton by kind, 2016 to 2023

$843in total
  • Food and beverage$53964%
  • Travel and lodging$28033%
  • Education$243%

Companies that paid Dr. Staton the most, 2016 to 2023

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026

Dr. George Sidney Staton has 2 awards and honors on record

Dmand AI lists 2 awards for Dr. Staton, most recently CMS Stage 1 EHR in 2013.

Awards and honors for Dr. Staton

  1. 2013
    • CMS Stage 1 EHR
  2. Undated
    • ACC Fellow

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Dr. George Sidney Staton graduated from Mercer University School of Medicine

Dr. Staton graduated from Mercer University School of Medicine in 2003.

  1. Medical schoolMercer University School of Medicine

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Dr. George Sidney Staton accepts plans from 17 insurance carriers

Dr. Staton is in network with 17 carriers, including Elevance, Aetna and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield. PPO plans come from the most carriers, 11. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

  • Elevance
  • Aetna
  • Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
  • United Healthcare
  • HCSC
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • Humana
  • +9 more carriersWith a free account

Plan types Dr. Staton accepts, by number of carriers

  1. PPO11
  2. Medicare10
  3. HMO8
  4. EPO5
  5. POS5
  6. Medicaid2

Source: Dmand AI Insurance Network Data

Sources for Dr. George Sidney Staton's profile data

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this pageSource
NPI, name, sex, specialty and licensesNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Practice locations and phoneNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice DataDmand AI Affiliation Data
Medicare services and procedure codesMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
State medians for the same specialtyDmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panelDmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Part D prescribingMedicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
MIPS scores, telehealth, assignment and procedure percentilesDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Awards and committee rolesDmand AI Professional Profile Data
Training, board certification and membershipsDmand AI Professional Profile Data
Insurance carriers and plan typesDmand AI Insurance Network Data
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Dr. George Sidney Staton's NPI number?

Dr. George Sidney Staton's NPI number is 1215990098. It was assigned on April 11, 2006, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. George Sidney Staton?

Dr. George Sidney Staton is a cardiologist in Valdosta, Georgia. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Cardiovascular Disease Physician (taxonomy code 207RC0000X).

Where does Dr. George Sidney Staton practice?

Dr. Staton practices at 410 Connell Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602. Dr. Staton's primary practice is Southwell Ambulatory Inc in Valdosta, Georgia. Dmand AI also links Dr. Staton to 4 hospitals, 3 group practices and clinics and 2 medical groups.

What is Dr. George Sidney Staton's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Staton is (229) 244-1570.

What is Dr. George Sidney Staton's medical license number?

Dr. Staton holds Georgia license 63539, one of the licenses on file in 2 states.

Which states has Dr. George Sidney Staton been licensed in?

Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Dr. Staton in Georgia and North Carolina.

Which hospitals is Dr. George Sidney Staton affiliated with?

Dr. Staton is affiliated with SGMC Health Main. Dmand AI links Dr. Staton to 4 more hospitals.

What medical group is Dr. George Sidney Staton part of?

Dr. Staton is linked to SGMC Health. Dmand AI links Dr. Staton to 2 more medical groups.

Does Dr. George Sidney Staton accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Staton billed Medicare for 12,414 services in 2024, and Dr. Staton accepts Medicare assignment.

How many Medicare patients does Dr. George Sidney Staton see?

CMS counts 2,239 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Staton in 2024, with an average age of 75.

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What services does Dr. George Sidney Staton bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Staton's most billed Medicare services were office visit, established patient (99213), heart test or procedure (93000) and heart test or procedure (93010).

Where did Dr. George Sidney Staton go to medical school?

Dr. Staton graduated from Mercer University School of Medicine in 2003.

What drugs does Dr. George Sidney Staton prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Staton's most prescribed drugs by claims were Clopidogrel, Metoprolol Succinate and Eliquis.

Has Dr. George Sidney Staton received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $843 in general payments to Dr. Staton from 16 companies from 2016 to 2023. The largest total came from Medtronic, Inc.

How long has Dr. George Sidney Staton been practicing?

Dr. Staton graduated from medical school in 2003, 23 years ago.

What insurance does Dr. George Sidney Staton accept?

Dr. Staton is in network with 17 carriers, including Elevance, Aetna and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield. PPO plans come from the most carriers, 11. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

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