George Fryhofer, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Duluth, GANPI 1861923138
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $126.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Globus Medical$706
- Johnson & Johnson$676
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$500
- Medtronic$398
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$5006%
- Travel & lodging$3,65746%
- Food & beverage$3,78948%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $2,691 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,302 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $706 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $676 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $398 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $397 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $382 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $210 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $185 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $146 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 2 | $120 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $39 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, 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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,569
- N/A$610
- Teligen$432
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$370
- XLIF$284
- O-ARM$181
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$157
- GAMMA$148
- ACCOLADE$148
- EVOS$146
- EXPEDIUM$143
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$130
- VIPER$130
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$116
- ALIF Instruments (Universal)$109
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$109
How this compares
$7,946 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 654 orthopaedic 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 orthopaedic surgery in Duluth
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- George GuildCumming$1.4M
- Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.4M
- Tuan BuiLawrenceville$1.1M
- William TallyAthens$870K
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.