Michael Cormican, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Gainesville, GANPI 1619261583
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (47.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $99,621 and has fallen 65.8% since, to $34,061 in 2025. Among surgical critical care 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.
Across 153 payments — averaging $1278.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$193K
- Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$109
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$104
- Medtronic$77
- Smith+Nephew$60
- plus $83 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$74,01338%
- Speaking & faculty fees$92,70047%
- Travel & lodging$23,17612%
- Food & beverage$5,7123%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 131 | $192,711 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 11 | $2,476 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $109 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $104 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $77 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $60 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $34 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
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.
How this compares
$195,621 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 52 surgical critical care 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 | 28 | $112 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in Gainesville
- John AdamskiGainesville$9K
- Timothy StevensGainesville$5K
- Marco YungGainesville$5K
- Kim SchultheissGainesville$21
- Jonathan NguyenAtlanta$410K
- Dudley ChristieMacon$85K
- Elizabeth BenjaminAtlanta$55K
- Bounthavy HomsombathAugusta$30K
- Romeo MassoudLawrenceville$27K
- Dennis AshleyMacon$16K
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.