Cassie Root, MD
Hand Surgery · Arlington, VANPI 1932375144
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,041 of the $2,683 with a category attached, or 76.1%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC at 37.1% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $3,008.
Across 47 payments — averaging $57.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$995
- Osteomed LLC$188
- Bioventus LLC$171
- Sonex Health, Inc.$147
- Stryker$139
- Boston Scientific$125
- plus $920 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,04176%
- Education$64324%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 4 | $995 |
| Osteomed LLC | 2 | $188 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $171 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Stryker | 5 | $139 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $119 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $112 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $67 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $58 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $52 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $41 |
| Amgen | 1 | $26 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Orthofix Medical, 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.
How this compares
$2,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 81 hand 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.
Other hand surgery in Arlington
- Rikesh GandhiArlington$22K
- Jeffrey LovalloArlington$16K
- Annie AshokArlington$7K
- Lance DavlinNorfolk$165K
- Chad MankeVa Beach$104K
- Frank GwathmeyNorfolk$68K
- Angelo DacusCharlottesville$57K
- Kacy PeekCharlottesville$31K
- Nicole SgromoloFort Belvoir$17K
- Drew KiernanLynchburg$15K
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.