Has Gerald Fortuna, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $143,044 in general payments to Gerald Fortuna, MD across 244 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 Gerald Fortuna, 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 Gerald Fortuna, 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.

Gerald Fortuna, MD

Vascular Surgery · West Columbia, SCNPI 1447479829

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $88,900 of the $143,044 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Inari Medical, Inc. accounts for 93.6% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $61,639 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $1,152 in 2025. Among vascular surgery clinicians in SC 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.

$143,044in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 244 payments — averaging $586.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inari Medical, Inc.$134K
Endologix LLC$2K
Cook Medical LLC$1K
Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.$1K
Medtronic$865
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$796
plus $3K from 21 others

$34,681in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $2477.19 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Inari Medical, Inc.$14K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$10K
Medtronic$7K
Stryker$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$88,90062%
Speaking & faculty fees$23,50016%
Grants$5,0003%
Travel & lodging$10,1127%
Food & beverage$14,91310%
Education$6200%

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
Inari Medical, Inc.	122	$133,903
Endologix LLC	23	$2,276
Cook Medical LLC	14	$1,265
Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.	2	$1,056
Medtronic(2 entities)	15	$865
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	8	$796
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	9	$519
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	3	$407
Shockwave Medical, Inc	9	$304
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	8	$278
Organogenesis Inc.	4	$185
Philips North America LLC	3	$168
Bolton Medical Inc	1	$148
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$139
Smith+Nephew	1	$123
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	3	$90
Boston Scientific	2	$85
Kerecis Limited	2	$84
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$81
Surmodics, Inc.	2	$79
Stryker	1	$41
Angiodynamics, Inc.	3	$40
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	2	$36
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$29
Covidien LP	1	$21
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$14
Johnson & Johnson	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.

CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$160,763
FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$53,259
FlowTriever$25,049
ClotTriever$25,049
AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$1,090
Ovation iX Iliac Stent Graft$1,090
ER-REBOA$1,000
Cook$692
ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$451
Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$411
Zilver PTX$269
ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$232
ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$216
Diamondback Peripheral$188
Abre$168
CareLink$159
Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$150
Grafts$148
EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$146
IN.PACT Admiral$144

How this compares

$143,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 99 vascular surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$672,287

Medicare patients

1,507

Services billed

2,931

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban	20	$18,430
BrilintaTicagrelor	15	$8,252
Cilostazol	41	$915
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	26	$479
Gabapentin	13	$360
Atorvastatin Calcium	11	$51

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in West Columbia

Mathew WoosterWest Columbia$443K
Brett FowlerWest Columbia$7K
John RossOrangeburg$847K
David DeatonColumbia$609K
Sagar GandhiGreenville$236K
Ravi VeeraswamyCharleston$164K
Kristian HochbergCharleston$106K
Joseph BlasGreenville$101K
Thomas ApplebyNorth Charleston$89K
Zachary ArthursCharleston$84K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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