Jihad Salameh, MD
Surgery · Arlington, VANPI 1487754578
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,214 of the $15,931 with a category attached, or 64.1%. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 25.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,900 and has fallen 50.7% since, to $2,416 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in VA 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 180 payments — averaging $88.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Davol Inc.$938
- plus $3K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,71736%
- Food & beverage$10,21464%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 29 | $4,036 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 23 | $3,333 |
| Medtronic | 23 | $2,058 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $1,837 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 19 | $1,190 |
| Davol Inc. | 8 | $938 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $854 |
| Teleflex LLC | 5 | $385 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $192 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $181 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $170 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $143 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $136 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $44 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $42 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$2,962
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,912
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$2,451
- LINX Reflux Management System$776
- Phasix Mesh$618
- Signia$590
- Echelon Flex$529
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$515
- STRATAFIX$514
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$403
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$398
- Harmonic$382
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$324
- ProGrip$305
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$284
- Enseal$276
- Echelon Circular$242
- Enseal X1$232
- VISTASEAL$217
- Titan SGS$176
How this compares
$15,931 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 29 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Arlington
- 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
- Amanda CoxSalem$142K
- Christopher NorthupCharlottesville$117K
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.