Has Arnold Salzberg, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,186 in general payments to Arnold Salzberg, MD across 52 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Arnold Salzberg, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Arnold Salzberg, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Arnold Salzberg, MD

Surgery · Roanoke, VANPI 1104927284

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $19,500 of the $25,186 with a category attached, or 77.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $21,967 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $692 in 2024. Among surgery clinicians in VA 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.

$25,186in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $484.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$25K
Asensus Surgical, Inc.$315
Johnson & Johnson$213

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$5002%
Travel & lodging$3,27313%
Food & beverage$1,7117%
Education$19,50077%
Gifts$2021%

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	46	$24,659
Asensus Surgical, Inc.	4	$315
Johnson & Johnson	2	$213

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.

How this compares

$25,186 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 675 surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$37,036

Medicare patients

Services billed

142

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
Ursodiol	14	$2,748
Enoxaparin Sodium	14	$491
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	18	$350
Omeprazole	31	$333

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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