---
title: What industry pays physicians in Virginia (CMS Open Payments 2024)
state: Virginia
program_year: 2024
general_payments: 77491613
physicians: 24255
source: CMS — Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act), program year 2024
sourceId: src:cms:open-payments:py2024
---

# Industry payments to physicians — Virginia (2024)

In Virginia, drug and device makers reported **$77,491,613** in general payments to **24,255** covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for program year 2024 (mean $3,195 each), plus $134,596,609 tied to research and $12,841,405 in ownership interests.

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

## Top specialties

| Specialty | Total | Physicians | Mean per physician |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orthopaedic Surgery | $29,861,955 | 340 | $87,829 |
| Sports Medicine | $2,759,356 | 108 | $25,550 |
| Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery | $2,503,141 | 41 | $61,052 |
| Dermatology | $2,266,840 | 268 | $8,458 |
| Neurology | $2,030,468 | 286 | $7,100 |
| Psychiatry | $1,938,497 | 337 | $5,752 |
| Pediatric Surgery | $1,802,872 | 15 | $120,191 |
| Family | $1,702,315 | 2,758 | $617 |
| Gastroenterology | $1,534,234 | 351 | $4,371 |
| Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine | $1,376,869 | 38 | $36,233 |
| Pulmonary Disease | $1,350,190 | 192 | $7,032 |
| Cardiovascular Disease | $1,348,682 | 393 | $3,432 |

## Highest-paid physicians (general payments)

| Physician | Specialty | Total | Top payer |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nitin Goyal | Orthopaedic Surgery | $25,000,342 | Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. |
| William Hamilton | Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery | $1,973,382 | DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. |
| Donald Nuss | Pediatric Surgery | $1,073,570 | Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. |
| Cato Laurencin | Orthopaedic Surgery | $861,777 | Alkermes, Inc. |
| James Dowd | Orthopaedic Surgery | $718,636 | DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. |
| David Diduch | Sports Medicine | $654,840 | Smith+Nephew, Inc. |
| Naiem Issa | Dermatology | $612,441 | LEO Pharma Inc. |
| Stephen Brockmeier | Sports Medicine | $594,094 | Exactech, Inc. |
| Michael Fabrizio | Urology | $560,191 | Janssen Global Services, LLC |
| Kenneth Zaslav | Sports Medicine | $487,662 | Smith+Nephew, Inc. |
| Niku Singh | Psychiatry | $468,682 | AbbVie Inc. |
| Jed Vanichkachorn | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine | $466,414 | SI-BONE, Inc. |
| Elizabeth Yeu-Lin | Ophthalmology | $449,092 | Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| David Scheiderer | Psychiatry | $430,559 | AbbVie Inc. |
| George Vetrovec | Cardiovascular Disease | $413,396 | ABIOMED |
| Kent Mcdaniel | Psychiatry | $404,509 | Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. |
| David Miller | Orthopaedic Surgery | $379,236 | Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. |
| Diego Dasilva | Dermatology | $379,064 | AbbVie Inc. |
| Saurabh Singh | Dermatology | $370,125 | E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. |
| Robert Obermeyer | Pediatric Surgery | $357,727 | Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. |
| Robert Kelly | Pediatric Surgery | $354,088 | Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. |
| Joseph Han | Otolaryngology | $352,383 | GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. |
| William Mihalko | Orthopaedic Surgery | $334,448 | Aesculap AG |
| Christopher Good | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine | $324,113 | Medtronic, Inc. |
| Justin Smith | Neurological Surgery | $323,909 | Highridge Medical LLC |

RECORDED CMS Open Payments amounts/counts; totals, means, and rankings are DERIVED. A disclosure record — not evidence of improper influence, not a measure of physician quality, not advice. To verify a physician, search openpaymentsdata.cms.gov. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

Structured data: `/care/open-payments/va.jsonld` · National: `/care/open-payments`