John Dalessandro
Physician Assistant · Salem, VANPI 1447238209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $132,063 of the $159,889 with a category attached, or 82.6%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 84.8% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among physician assistant clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 293 payments — averaging $545.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$136K
- Johnson & Johnson$24K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$132,06383%
- Travel & lodging$24,16715%
- Food & beverage$3,2872%
- Education$3720%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 238 | $135,651 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 55 | $24,238 |
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.
- STRATAFIX$141,421
- DERMABOND$129,865
- VISTASEAL$2,623
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$2,144
- DERMABOND PRINEO$247
How this compares
$159,889 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,376 physician assistant providers in Virginia.
Other physician assistant in Salem
- Jordan YoungSalem$12K
- Jalal AlghabraFredericksburg$119K
- Jamie GiovanelliVirginia Beach$118K
- John CarterStaunton$90K
- Melissa AlcoxNorfolk$73K
- Lindsay TomReston$71K
- Robert HigginsonRichmond$66K
- Jameka McElroy-BrooklynArlington$65K
- Hillary HartungNorfolk$62K
- Juliette BeristainVirginia Beach$54K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.