David Stuart, MD
Surgery · Beckley, WVNPI 1518171628
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (55.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.1% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,171 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $111 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in WV 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.
Across 127 payments — averaging $99.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Zimmer Biomet$634
- Johnson & Johnson$334
- Organogenesis Inc.$243
- Stryker$149
- Smith+Nephew$136
- plus $265 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$701%
- Travel & lodging$3,10124%
- Food & beverage$2,47820%
- Education$7,02655%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 86 | $10,915 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $634 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $334 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $243 |
| Stryker | 2 | $149 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $136 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $55 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $37 |
| Merck | 2 | $35 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $21 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$7,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,775
- Echelon Circular$122
- SURG - NEPTUNE$116
How this compares
$12,675 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 162 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 23 | $242 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Beckley
- Brian WhyteBeckley$56K
- Sarah HayekBeckley$44K
- Sarang KashyapBeckley$12K
- Nicole WhatleyBeckley$10K
- Oluyemisi SangodeyiBeckley$9K
- Justin HavensBeckley$4K
- Courtney PettifordBeckley$3K
- Scott KillmerBeckley$3K
- Darren NeaseCharleston$107K
- Farzad AmiriHuntington$66K
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.