Industry payments to physicians · Virginia · 2024

Virginia

In Virginia, drug and device makers reported $77M in general payments to 24,255 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $3,195 each — plus $135M tied to research and $13M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.

$77M

general payments

24,255

covered recipients paid

$3,195

mean per physician

Top specialties in Virginia

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $30M $87,829/phys

Sports Medicine $3M $25,550/phys

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery $3M $61,052/phys

Dermatology $2M $8,458/phys

Neurology $2M $7,100/phys

Psychiatry $2M $5,752/phys

Pediatric Surgery $2M $120,191/phys

Family $2M $617/phys

Gastroenterology $2M $4,371/phys

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine $1M $36,233/phys

Pulmonary Disease $1M $7,032/phys

Cardiovascular Disease $1M $3,432/phys

Highest-paid physicians in Virginia

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Nitin Goyal Orthopaedic Surgery · Arlington · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $25M

William Hamilton Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Alexandria · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $2M

Donald Nuss Pediatric Surgery · Norfolk · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $1M

Cato Laurencin Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlottesville · top payer: Alkermes, Inc. $861,777

James Dowd Orthopaedic Surgery · Virginia Beach · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $718,636

David Diduch Sports Medicine · Charlottesville · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $654,840

Naiem Issa Dermatology · Vienna · top payer: LEO Pharma Inc. $612,441

Stephen Brockmeier Sports Medicine · Charlottesville · top payer: Exactech, Inc. $594,094

Michael Fabrizio Urology · Virginia Beach · top payer: Janssen Global Services, LLC $560,191

Kenneth Zaslav Sports Medicine · Richmond · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $487,662

Niku Singh Psychiatry · Falls Church · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $468,682

Jed Vanichkachorn Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Richmond · top payer: SI-BONE, Inc. $466,414

Elizabeth Yeu-Lin Ophthalmology · Norfolk · top payer: Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $449,092

David Scheiderer Psychiatry · Roanoke · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $430,559

George Vetrovec Cardiovascular Disease · Richmond · top payer: ABIOMED $413,396

Kent Mcdaniel Psychiatry · Glen Allen · top payer: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $404,509

David Miller Orthopaedic Surgery · North Chesterfield · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $379,236

Diego Dasilva Dermatology · Virginia Beach · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $379,064

Saurabh Singh Dermatology · Fairfax · top payer: E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $370,125

Robert Obermeyer Pediatric Surgery · Norfolk · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $357,727

Robert Kelly Pediatric Surgery · Norfolk · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $354,088

Joseph Han Otolaryngology · Norfolk · top payer: GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $352,383

William Mihalko Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlottesville · top payer: Aesculap AG $334,448

Christopher Good Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Reston · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $324,113

Justin Smith Neurological Surgery · Charlottesville · top payer: Highridge Medical LLC $323,909

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Virginia — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.