Has Chad Aarons, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $201,778 in general payments to Chad Aarons, MD across 183 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 Chad Aarons, 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 Chad Aarons, 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.

Chad Aarons, MD

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Richmond, VANPI 1407067598

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (51.2%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by CTL Medical Corporation at 51.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $55,703 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $815 in 2025. Among pediatric orthopaedic 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.

$201,778in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 183 payments — averaging $1102.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

CTL Medical Corporation$104K
Medtronic$67K
Spine Wave, Inc.$21K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$4K
Orthopediatrics Corp.$3K
Fortis Surgical, LLC$1K
plus $2K from 7 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$103,24151%
Consulting fees$25,80013%
Speaking & faculty fees$53,19026%
Travel & lodging$12,9696%
Food & beverage$4,1932%
Education$2,3851%

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
CTL Medical Corporation	24	$103,562
Medtronic(2 entities)	96	$66,522
Spine Wave, Inc.	28	$21,263
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	20	$4,465
Orthopediatrics Corp.	6	$3,236
Fortis Surgical, LLC	2	$1,223
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	1	$1,185
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$127
Surgical Theater. Inc.	1	$85
Zimmer Biomet	1	$46
Globus Medical	1	$25
Stryker	1	$19
Baxter Healthcare	1	$18

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.

Spinal$69,507
MazorX - Renaissance$30,690
Mazor X Stealth Edition$17,762
SALVO SPINE SYSTEM$15,705
MAZOR X SYSTEM$13,220
FORZA PTC Spacer System$2,125
FORZA PEEK Spacer System$2,125
Firebird Spinal Fixation System$2,125
CONSTRUX Mini PEEK Spacer System$1,275
Phoenix CDX$1,275
ProView MAP System$1,275
PSO Instrument Set$1,275
3-Degrees Anterior Cervical Plating (ACP) System$1,275
LONESTAR Cervical Stand Alone (CSA)$1,275
SKYHAWK Lateral Interbody Fusion System$1,275
SKYHAWK Lateral Interbody Fusion System & Lateral Plate System$850
Firebird NXG Spinal Fixation System$850
ASCENT;ASCENT LE;FIREBIRD SFS;ICON SFS;SFS$354
StealthStation$133
Other - Miscellaneous$127

How this compares

$201,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 20 pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$4,261

Medicare patients

Services billed

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 pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Richmond

Hans TutenRichmond$276K
Chester SharpsRichmond$80K
Joanna HorstmannRichmond$2K
Gregory HaleRichmond$323
Laurel BlakemoreFairfax$140K
Harvey St ClairNorfolk$72K
Keith BachmannCharlottesville$44K
Vanna RocchiPortsmouth$13K
Carl St RemyNorfolk$11K
Christopher JacksonNorfolk$7K

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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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