Edmond Ritter, MD
Plastic Surgery · Augusta, GANPI 1982793378
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.0%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.5%. Among plastic surgery clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 256 payments — averaging $175.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$11K
- Polarityte, Inc.$10K
- Axogen$4K
- Access Pro Medical, LLC$3K
- AbbVie$3K
- Stryker$2K
- plus $13K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,63021%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,42314%
- Travel & lodging$4,1859%
- Food & beverage$24,74555%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 16 | $10,576 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 44 | $9,937 |
| Axogen | 24 | $4,202 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 21 | $2,718 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 24 | $2,677 |
| Stryker | 10 | $1,904 |
| Kerecis Limited | 17 | $1,731 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 10 | $1,564 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $1,402 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 10 | $1,207 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $1,078 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 8 | $1,038 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $823 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $800 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $673 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $328 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $326 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $324 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $318 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $287 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $242 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $202 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $148 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $92 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $29 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- RECELL$10,334
- SkinTE$8,110
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$3,693
- INTEGRA$2,999
- Kerecis SurgiClose$2,998
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$2,977
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$2,977
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$2,868
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$2,868
- Matriderm$2,551
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$2,002
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$1,217
- NA$1,213
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,175
- HemoBlast Bellows$945
- PREVENA$945
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$944
- PRIMATRIX$944
- VSP SYSTEM, VSP CRANIAL$922
- GRAFIX PL$771
How this compares
$44,983 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 163 plastic surgery providers in Georgia.
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 plastic surgery in Augusta
- David ZabelAugusta$511K
- Mouchammed AgkoAugusta$7K
- Albert LoskenAtlanta$436K
- Jonathan NguyenAtlanta$364K
- Brian MaloneyAtlanta$224K
- Michael McNeelMarietta$160K
- Farzad NahaiAtlanta$129K
- Michael KluskaCommerce$58K
- Sara NeimanisAtlanta$51K
- Alan LarsenAtlanta$48K
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.