Aaron Sachs, MD
Surgery · Haymarket, VANPI 1467795195
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (38.6%), food and beverage and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 74.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,470 and has fallen 93.1% since, to $516 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in VA 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 62 payments — averaging $271.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$916
- Johnson & Johnson$385
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$199
- Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc.$183
- plus $315 from 3 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $500.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Lucid Diagnostics Inc.$500
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,89011%
- Travel & lodging$2,24913%
- Food & beverage$3,22119%
- Education$6,50039%
- Other$3,00018%
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 | 31 | $12,557 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $2,305 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $916 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $385 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 2 | $199 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 2 | $152 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $55 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$8,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,305
- DA VINCI SP$262
- Signia$153
- EndoFlip$153
- SpyGlass Discover$129
- Ovitex$108
How this compares
$16,859 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 675 surgery providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 16 | $284 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Haymarket
- Nicholas DuganHaymarket$20K
- Raymond MakhoulRichmond$1.5M
- Zobair YounossiFalls Church$1.2M
- Yassar YoussefNorfolk$1M
- David WeintrittAlexandria$555K
- Hazem ElarinyVienna$368K
- George GillianLorton$214K
- Joseph GreeneReston$187K
- Lamiere DowningChristiansburg$175K
- Amanda CoxSalem$142K
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.