Richard Fortunato, DO
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1033375894
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (30.9%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Integra Lifesciences Corporation at 46.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $23,798 and has fallen 61.9% since, to $9,067 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in PA 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 184 payments — averaging $437.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$37K
- Intuitive Surgical$34K
- Acell, Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$799
- Innovation Technologies Inc$665
- Covidien LP$384
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,06321%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,65524%
- Travel & lodging$7,0029%
- Food & beverage$9,56112%
- Education$24,82431%
- Other$2,3163%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 53 | $37,365 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 68 | $33,867 |
| Acell, Inc. | 7 | $4,918 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $799 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 8 | $665 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $384 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $357 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $247 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $196 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $193 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $190 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 1 | $181 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $135 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $128 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $95 |
| Suture Ease, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $56 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $31 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Organon | 2 | $19 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- INTEGRA$35,028
- Da Vinci Surgical System$32,766
- PRIMATRIX$20,401
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$12,204
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$12,204
- NEURAGEN$5,640
- OMNIGRAFT$5,470
- CYTAL$2,347
- AMNIOEXCEL PLUS$2,316
- SURGIMEND$1,790
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,688
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$404
- INTERSTIM$302
- Irrisept$280
- HEMOBLAST$196
- ARIETTA PRECISION$181
- HemoBlast Bellows$159
- EleVision$159
- BIOFIX$155
- BIODRESTORE$155
How this compares
$80,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 108 colon & rectal surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 81 | $5,545 |
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 14 | $1,076 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Pittsburgh
- Jennifer Holder-MurrayPittsburgh$21K
- James CelebrezzePittsburgh$10K
- Leigh NadlerPittsburgh$6K
- Sean WhelanPittsburgh$6K
- Scott HolekampPittsburgh$4K
- Stanislav NosikPittsburgh$3K
- Bogdan ProtyniakWilkes-Barre$429K
- John MarksWynnewood$155K
- Joshua BleierPhiladelphia$86K
- Najjia MahmoudPhiladelphia$63K
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.