Kyle Fortman
Physician Assistant · Smyrna, GANPI 1598828923
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 94 payments — averaging $127.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$10K
- Abbott$565
- Bayer$224
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$214
- Medtronic$182
- Boston Scientific$170
- plus $821 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,90057%
- Travel & lodging$5174%
- Food & beverage$4,61138%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 32 | $9,853 |
| Abbott | 3 | $565 |
| Bayer | 3 | $224 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $214 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $182 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $170 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $154 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $146 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 7 | $115 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $91 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $86 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $75 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $65 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $40 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, 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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$7,375
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$749
- EVOQUE$432
- Ultreon$204
- AMPLATZER TALISMAN$194
- COMPIA MRI QUAD CRT-D SURESCAN$111
How this compares
$12,028 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant providers in Georgia.
Other physician assistant in Smyrna
- Douglas DiruggieroCartersville$1.3M
- Jennifer CobbsAtlanta$1M
- A BrunnerStockbridge$1M
- Joseph LangshawCalhoun$887K
- Alison MoeAtlanta$410K
- Maggie SchreckAtlanta$389K
- Lisa HillMarietta$190K
- Laura BishopBrunswick$103K
- Jaime AckermanAtlanta$84K
- Richard BurrellBrunswick$69K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.