Michael Fitzgerald, MD
Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1588924245
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (57.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 75.4% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among 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.
Across 78 payments — averaging $210.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Zimmer Biomet$862
- AbbVie$669
- Atricure, Inc.$520
- Davol Inc.$280
- TELA Bio, Inc.$231
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,40515%
- Food & beverage$4,52628%
- Education$9,51358%
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 | 29 | $12,397 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 13 | $862 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $669 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $520 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $280 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $231 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $201 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $152 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $139 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $126 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $123 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $118 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $111 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $103 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$9,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,207
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$529
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$439
- INTEGRA$369
- AdvantageRib$341
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$334
- ARISTA$280
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$174
- CellerateRx$144
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$140
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$140
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$123
- PRIMATRIX$123
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$115
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$115
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$111
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$111
- V.A.C. VERAFLO$103
- TRANSORB$102
How this compares
$16,444 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
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.
Other surgery in Columbia
- Arthur CoolerColumbia$25K
- Kurt FichtnerColumbia$22K
- Christopher WatsonColumbia$21K
- David MoffatColumbia$21K
- Jacob HesseyColumbia$18K
- Ratnakishore PallapothuColumbia$14K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
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.