Christopher Northup, MD
Surgery · Charlottesville, VANPI 1558430181
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $91,360 of the $117,395 with a category attached, or 77.8%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 39.8% of the total. Among surgery 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.
Across 248 payments — averaging $473.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$47K
- Johnson & Johnson$29K
- Boston Scientific$22K
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Medtronic$4K
- Covidien LP$3K
- plus $4K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$91,36078%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,6004%
- Travel & lodging$7,8807%
- Food & beverage$9,2018%
- Education$4,3004%
- Gifts$140%
- Entertainment$410%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 50 | $46,670 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 67 | $28,922 |
| Boston Scientific | 24 | $22,397 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 34 | $7,701 |
| Medtronic | 46 | $4,118 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $3,455 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 4 | $2,620 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $969 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $159 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $59 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 3 | $54 |
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.
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$47,744
- Echelon Flex$41,520
- HARMONIC Product Family$24,238
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$24,222
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$11,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,462
- Endo Stitch$3,400
- Harmonic$2,415
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$2,125
- GENERAL ENDOCHOICE$1,608
- Signia$1,079
- Sonicision$498
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$186
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$185
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$155
- Apollo ESG NXT System$147
- SEAMGUARD$143
- APOLLO ESG System$129
- TITAN SGS BAILOUT CHUCK$107
- LigaSure$104
How this compares
$117,395 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 675 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 surgery in Charlottesville
- Traci HedrickCharlottesville$20K
- Thomas ShinCharlottesville$16K
- Raymond MakhoulRichmond$1.5M
- Zobair YounossiFalls Church$1.2M
- Yassar YoussefNorfolk$1M
- David WeintrittAlexandria$555K
- Hazem ElarinyVienna$368K
- George GillianLorton$214K
- Joseph GreeneReston$187K
- Lamiere DowningChristiansburg$175K
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.