Brian Fulton, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1780039248
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (39.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 68.4% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,384, more than ten times the $282 reported in 2022.
Across 144 payments — averaging $155.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$15K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$584
- Boston Scientific$379
- Abbott$237
- plus $644 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,81939%
- Travel & lodging$8,13436%
- Food & beverage$5,25323%
- Education$1881%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 62 | $15,307 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 36 | $3,651 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $1,592 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $584 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $379 |
| Abbott | 13 | $237 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $225 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $94 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Stryker | 1 | $68 |
| Novartis | 1 | $61 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $22 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- SYMPLICITY G3$6,489
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$2,922
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$722
- GORE CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder$669
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$649
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$558
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$558
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$327
- Sentinel$131
- WOLVERINE CORONARY CUTTING BALLOON$129
- AVVIGO Guidance System$103
How this compares
$22,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 281 interventional cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other interventional cardiology in Philadelphia
- Jon GeorgePhiladelphia$637K
- Sanjog KalraPhiladelphia$444K
- Taisei KobayashiPhiladelphia$384K
- Howard HerrmannPhiladelphia$259K
- Jay GiriPhiladelphia$157K
- Paul FiorilliPhiladelphia$104K
- Nicholas RuggieroPhiladelphia$74K
- Craig FrankilPhiladelphia$59K
- Michael BodePhiladelphia$58K
- Oleg VishnevskyPhiladelphia$49K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.