Dale Ding, MD
Neurological Surgery · Charlottesville, VANPI 1073830360
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 137 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,920, more than ten times the $418 reported in 2019.
Across 137 payments — averaging $76.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Balt USA, LLC$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Microvention, Inc.$710
- Penumbra, Inc.$545
- Qapel Medical Inc$369
- plus $3K from 15 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $1988.49 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.
- Penumbra, Inc.$16K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,480100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Balt USA, LLC | 34 | $2,325 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 36 | $2,203 |
| Stryker | 19 | $1,793 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 14 | $710 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 5 | $545 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 1 | $369 |
| Surgical Theater. Inc. | 1 | $360 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 4 | $292 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $271 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 3 | $260 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $250 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $209 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $161 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $136 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $133 |
| Scientia Vascular | 1 | $118 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Pipeline$1,027
- Optima Coil System$1,014
- SURPASS EVOLVE$918
- TARGET$570
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$456
- NEUROFORM ATLAS$336
- RED 72$283
- CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System$209
- ZOOM REPERFUSION CATHETER$191
- GammaTile$177
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$169
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$161
- STRATA$150
- STENT$144
- Penumbra System$135
- Oncology$135
- Neuro Plating System$133
- Duet$120
- Aristotle$118
- Colossus$118
How this compares
$10,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 156 neurological 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 neurological surgery in Charlottesville
- Justin SmithCharlottesville$2.3M
- Ryan KelloggCharlottesville$245K
- Juan Sardi RestrepoCharlottesville$128K
- Chun Po YenCharlottesville$90K
- Jason SheehanCharlottesville$13K
- Pedro Norat Guimaraes Barroso MagnoCharlottesville$7K
- William EliasCharlottesville$5K
- Shayan MoosaCharlottesville$5K
- David VincentVirginia Beach$959K
- Mudit SharmaManassas$714K
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.