Paul Cartwright, MD
Surgery · Tifton, GANPI 1932306149
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,000 of the $18,669 with a category attached, or 69.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.8% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,831 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $1,188 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in GA 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 99 payments — averaging $188.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$1K
- Davol Inc.$308
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$227
- Lucid Diagnostics Inc.$224
- Johnson & Johnson$151
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,87010%
- Food & beverage$3,44118%
- Education$13,00070%
- Gifts$3582%
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 | 34 | $15,646 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $1,045 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $308 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 3 | $227 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 3 | $224 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $151 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $149 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $109 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $99 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $71 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $63 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Merck | 2 | $45 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $43 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $33 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $32 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $25 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $25 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $19 |
| GSK | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$18,669 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $293 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 48 | $247 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Tifton
- 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.