Charles Capito, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chester, WVNPI 1770574212
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,351 of the $2,935 with a category attached, or 80.1%. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $974 and has fallen 66.6% since, to $325 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WV, where the typical reported total is $2,681.
Across 46 payments — averaging $63.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$585
- Stryker$561
- Inari Medical, Inc.$389
- Medtronic$381
- Linvatec Corporation$298
- Amgen$279
- plus $442 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$58520%
- Food & beverage$2,35180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 1 | $585 |
| Stryker | 5 | $561 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $389 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $381 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $298 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 13 | $279 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 12 | $188 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $150 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $59 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Sonex Health, 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.
How this compares
$2,935 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 93 orthopaedic surgery providers in West 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 32 | $400 |
| Ibuprofen | 29 | $358 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 40 | $131 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 27 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chester
- Benjamin FryeMorgantown$329K
- Chad LavenderCharleston$312K
- Steven LochowHuntington$146K
- Joshua SykesBridgeport$108K
- Scott DaffnerMorgantown$102K
- John CromptonHuntington$78K
- Ali OliashiraziHuntington$65K
- Gregory PurnellMorgantown$65K
- Matthew DietzMorgantown$60K
- Felix CheungHuntington$59K
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.