Has Kyle Fortman received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,028 in general payments to Kyle Fortman across 94 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 Kyle Fortman 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 Kyle Fortman 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.

Kyle Fortman

Physician Assistant · Smyrna, GANPI 1598828923

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 81.9% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,539, more than ten times the $200 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$12,028in general payments, 2019–2025

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.

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Other physician assistant in Smyrna

Douglas DiruggieroCartersville$1.3M
Jennifer CobbsAtlanta$1M
A BrunnerStockbridge$1M
Joseph LangshawCalhoun$879K
Alison MoeAtlanta$410K
Maggie SchreckAtlanta$389K
Lisa HillMarietta$190K
Laura BishopBrunswick$103K
Jaime AckermanAtlanta$84K
Richard BurrellBrunswick$69K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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