John Simmons, MD
Surgery · Cartersville, GANPI 1386840874
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Intuitive Surgical accounts for 63.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,129 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $49 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $1,913.
Across 28 payments — averaging $74.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Davol Inc.$179
- Stryker$136
- Sirius Medical Systems$87
- Kerecis Limited$72
- Smith+Nephew$63
- plus $226 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,07752%
- Education$1,00048%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $1,314 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $179 |
| Stryker | 2 | $136 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 1 | $87 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $72 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $63 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $59 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $35 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $12 |
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$1,142
How this compares
$2,077 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 855 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 52 | $271 |
| Levofloxacin | 14 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Cartersville
- Chad CopperGainesville$999K
- Zachary KlaassenAugusta$763K
- Stephen OdomAustell$599K
- Fritz Jean-PierreMarietta$464K
- Kendra GrubbAtlanta$374K
- Harry LightfootSmyrna$241K
- Oliver WhippleSavannah$222K
- Nelson RoyallGainesville$220K
- Ankit PatelAtlanta$217K
- Kevin NguyenAtlanta$161K
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.