RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Good

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Reston, VANPI 1568593390

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,182,704 of the $1,678,196 with a category attached, or 70.5%. Medtronic accounts for 86.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $365,224 and has fallen 58.7% since, to $150,793 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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.

$1,678,196in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 487 payments — averaging $3445.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$1.4M
  • Stryker$162K
  • Augmedics Inc.$40K
  • VB Spine LLC$26K
  • Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$267
  • Centinel Spine, LLC$240
  • plus $463 from 8 others
$2,390,080in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $72,427 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Medtronic$2.4M
  • Globus Medical$26K
$282,032in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $40,290 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Augmedics Inc.$282K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$1,182,70470%
  • Consulting fees$180,96111%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$258,96615%
  • Travel & lodging$36,0012%
  • Food & beverage$9,1641%
  • Ownership interest$10,4001%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$1,678,196 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Virginia.

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