Francis Shen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Charlottesville, VANPI 1962571505
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.6%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 54.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $105,703 and has fallen 70.4% since, to $31,257 in 2025.
Across 353 payments — averaging $1222.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$236K
- Globus Medical$140K
- Life Spine, Inc.$36K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$14K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$1K
- plus $2K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$121,61128%
- Consulting fees$214,00450%
- Speaking & faculty fees$53,00012%
- Travel & lodging$36,3558%
- Food & beverage$6,6002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 201 | $236,364 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 71 | $140,133 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 42 | $35,818 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 13 | $14,273 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $2,000 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $1,382 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $607 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 5 | $479 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $190 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $161 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- CD HORIZON$83,848
- Fortify Variable Axis$71,764
- FORTIFY$48,681
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$36,664
- MazorX - Renaissance$29,364
- TruLift$23,955
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$13,419
- Unity Lumbosacral Fixation System$11,812
- TDX Posterior Dynamic Stabilization$11,812
- Spinal Fixation System (SFS)$11,812
- SKYHAWK Lateral Interbody Fusion System & Lateral Plate System$11,221
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$11,212
- CONSTRUX Mini PTC Spacer System$11,100
- ARx Long Construct$9,996
- ProLift$9,252
- ARx$8,468
- TLIF$7,750
- ELEVATE$7,465
- ProLift Modular Endplates$6,272
- INTER FIX$6,000
How this compares
$431,570 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Virginia.
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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 orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Charlottesville
- Stephen LockeyCharlottesville$27K
- Anuj SinglaCharlottesville$19K
- Xudong LiCharlottesville$13K
- William SukovichCharlottesville$2K
- Jed VanichkachornRichmond$2.3M
- Christopher GoodReston$1.7M
- John SimpsonRichmond$880K
- Colin HainesReston$700K
- Ehsan JaziniReston$502K
- Jeffrey CarlsonNewport News$295K
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.