Has Bernardo Ordonez, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $177,899 in general payments to Bernardo Ordonez, MD across 60 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 Bernardo Ordonez, 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 Bernardo Ordonez, 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.

Bernardo Ordonez, MD

Neurological Surgery · Chesapeake, VANPI 1346284155

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (54.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Choice Spine, LLC accounts for 71.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $52,883 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $2,380 in 2025. Among neurological 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.

$177,899in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $2964.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Choice Spine, LLC$128K
Zavation Medical Products, LLC$29K
Ossdsign USA Incorporated$18K
Elevation Spine, Inc.$2K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$341
Medtronic$47
plus $210 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$96,74354%
Consulting fees$48,21127%
Travel & lodging$31,29918%
Food & beverage$1,6461%

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
Choice Spine, LLC	20	$127,525
Zavation Medical Products, LLC	7	$29,317
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	9	$18,458
Elevation Spine, Inc.	4	$2,000
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	8	$341
Medtronic	2	$47
Spineology Inc.	2	$42
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$36
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$32
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$30
Bioventus LLC	1	$27
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$16
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$15
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$12

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.

Hawkeye Vertebral Body Replacement (VBR)$74,987
Hawkeye Ti$35,755
ZAVATION$19,575
Hawkeye$10,500
Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$9,154
Stratofuse$9,154
Tiger Shark C$8,529
Raven Lumbar Plate System$8,529
Pedical screw/ Cervical Plate System$4,886
Blackhawk$4,782
Tiger Shark$4,782
Blackbird$4,782
Tomcat$4,782
VEO$4,782
Cervical plate/EZplate Pedical Screw System,$4,642
Boomerang$1,404
OssDsign Catalyst$900
TIGERSHARK C$625
Harrier SA Lumbar Interbody System$625

How this compares

$177,899 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$215,114

Medicare patients

252

Services billed

783

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
Methocarbamol	42	$549
Celecoxib	15	$278
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	11	$86
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	12	$72
Alendronate Sodium	11	$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Chesapeake

Devon LefeverChesapeake$148K
Joseph KoenChesapeake$49K
Grant SkidmoreChesapeake$37K
David WatersChesapeake$14K
Mary CobbChesapeake$10K
John ShutackChesapeake$5K
Justin SmithCharlottesville$2.3M
David VincentVirginia Beach$959K
Mudit SharmaManassas$714K
Ryan KelloggCharlottesville$245K

See the full list for Virginia →

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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