Robert Edwards, DO
Surgery · Columbus, GANPI 1750382545
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $23,100 of the $34,219 with a category attached, or 67.5%. Medtronic accounts for 97.6% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $21,507, more than ten times the $200 reported in 2019. Among surgery 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 134 payments — averaging $255.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$33K
- Intuitive Surgical$269
- Organogenesis Inc.$125
- AbbVie$96
- Smith+Nephew$94
- Novo Nordisk$50
- plus $174 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,46313%
- Speaking & faculty fees$23,10068%
- Travel & lodging$3,0629%
- Food & beverage$3,37810%
- Education$2171%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 107 | $33,412 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $269 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $96 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $94 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $50 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| GSK | 1 | $16 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- VenaSeal$23,234
- ClosureFast$7,683
- Da Vinci Surgical System$161
- Puraply Antimicrobial$125
How this compares
$34,219 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Other surgery in Columbus
- 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.