Caroline Tippett
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Charlottesville, VANPI 1497215479
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,679 of the $13,012 with a category attached, or 66.7%. Stryker accounts for 82.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,623 and has fallen 71.0% since, to $1,920 in 2025.
Across 140 payments — averaging $92.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$11K
- Trimed, Inc.$939
- Johnson & Johnson$325
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$278
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$231
- Access Pro Medical, LLC$168
- plus $359 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,33333%
- Food & beverage$8,67967%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 118 | $10,712 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 2 | $939 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $325 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $278 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $231 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $168 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $150 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $78 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $51 |
| Forma Medical | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- PROstep$2,598
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$2,076
- VARIAX$2,058
- HOFFMANN$2,021
- AXSOS$1,627
- GAMMA$1,627
- Tools - AFS$824
- SALVATION$747
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$450
- PROPHECY$439
- BIOLOX$429
- STAR$389
- Viaflow$291
- EASYFUSE$264
- BIOskin$261
- Matriderm$168
- ANCHORAGE$152
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$150
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$150
- EASY CLIP$136
How this compares
$13,012 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 260 foot and ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 11 | $251 |
| Cephalexin | 33 | $84 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $74 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Charlottesville
- Minton CooperCharlottesville$88K
- Joseph ParkCharlottesville$69K
- Joseph DisabatoCharlottesville$29K
- Christopher StewartCharlottesville$10K
- Mark JonesNorth Chesterfield$2.4M
- Oliver SchipperArlington$1.2M
- Steven NeufeldFalls Church$857K
- Charles ZelenRoanoke$363K
- Ryan VazalesGlen Allen$337K
- Jugal DhariaFairfax$309K
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.