Has James Sanderlin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,309 in general payments to James Sanderlin, MD across 41 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean James Sanderlin, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about James Sanderlin, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

James Sanderlin, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Norfolk, VANPI 1659507721

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 41 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 26.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $663 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $50 in 2025.

$1,309in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $31.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$352
Nevro Corp.$300
Boston Scientific$249
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$56
Johnson & Johnson$49
Pfizer$41
plus $263 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,309100%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	7	$352
Nevro Corp.	5	$300
Boston Scientific	4	$249
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$56
Johnson & Johnson	2	$49
Pfizer	3	$41
Abbott	2	$35
AbbVie	2	$34
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	2	$29
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$29
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$26
Kaleo, Inc.	2	$26
Bioventus LLC	1	$19
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$15
Shionogi Inc	1	$14
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$14
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$12
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$11

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

$1,309 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 231 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$413,014

Medicare patients

635

Services billed

7,887

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	203	$3,649
Pregabalin	128	$3,495
Tramadol Hcl	358	$2,732
Gabapentin	146	$1,690
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	54	$1,477
Tizanidine Hcl	48	$406
Prednisone	28	$355
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	28	$351
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	74	$344
Oxycodone Hcl	27	$343
Diclofenac Sodium	22	$258
Ibuprofen	23	$249
Baclofen	24	$149
Ropinirole Hcl	17	$47
Meloxicam	22	$41

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Norfolk

Amanda MoranNorfolk$9K
Beverly Roberts-AtwaterNorfolk$1K
Sun Duck KwonNorfolk$817
Maria DeguzmanNorfolk$694
Kovosh DastanWinchester$23K
Stephanie ClopAldie$16K
Daniel HellerWarrenton$12K
Abraham CherrickAlexandria$9K
Mir AliRichmond$8K
Derek BuckBluefield$7K

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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.

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