Has Daniel Fortes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,979 in general payments to Daniel Fortes, MD across 177 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Daniel Fortes, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Daniel Fortes, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Daniel Fortes, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Marietta, GANPI 1124037486

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (28.8%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 47.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $11,952, 3.6 times the $3,342 reported in 2019.

$22,979in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 177 payments — averaging $129.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$11K
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$5K
Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC$805
Johnson & Johnson$752
Cook Incorporated$700
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$465
plus $4K from 30 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5,08222%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,7007%
Travel & lodging$4,54520%
Food & beverage$6,61629%
Education$5,02122%
Gifts$150%

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
Intuitive Surgical	61	$10,817
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	5	$5,377
Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC	4	$805
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	8	$752
Cook Incorporated	1	$700
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries	4	$465
Zimmer Biomet	5	$374
Medtronic	5	$360
Davol Inc.	4	$305
Covidien LP	6	$305
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$296
Novartis	13	$280
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	9	$263
Atricure, Inc.	3	$262
On Target Laboratories, Inc	2	$182
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	7	$178
Merck	6	$176
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$149
Cook Medical LLC	1	$127
Stryker	3	$118
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$81
Baxter Healthcare	1	$80
Bristol Myers Squibb	3	$79
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	2	$50
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation	2	$49
Seagen Inc.	2	$43
Exelixis Inc.	2	$43
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$41
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$40
BD	1	$38
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	1	$27
Eisai Inc.	1	$27
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$24
Pfizer	1	$23
GSK	1	$22
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$22

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$5,994
CoolSeal Generator$5,973
DA VINCI SP$3,250
PHASIX$511
MONARCH$488
AdvantageRib$308
Cytalux$161
ALIYA SYSTEM$149
ILLUMISITE$138
ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$133
Cook Medical Thoracic$127
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$106
Signia$106

How this compares

$22,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 144 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$121,369

Medicare patients

182

Services billed

377

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Marietta

Vinod ThouraniMarietta$1.2M
Daniel MillerMarietta$237K
William MayfieldMarietta$89K
Theresa LuuMarietta$32K
Richard MyungMarietta$12K
Jeremy LondonSavannah$1.6M
Manu SanchetiAtlanta$805K
John PuskasAtlanta$332K
Douglas MurphyAtlanta$254K
Ezequiel MolinaAtlanta$215K

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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.

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