Joy Sharma, MD
Hand Surgery · Richmond, VANPI 1639387293
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $2,400 of the $2,853 with a category attached, or 84.1%. Fortis Surgical, LLC accounts for 85.8% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,249 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $19 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $3,008.
Across 9 payments — averaging $316.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fortis Surgical, LLC$2K
- Stryker$171
- Medartis Inc.$134
- Johnson & Johnson$67
- Vertex$19
- Bsn Medical Inc$14
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$45316%
- Education$2,40084%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 3 | $2,449 |
| Stryker | 1 | $171 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $67 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Bsn Medical 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.
How this compares
$2,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 81 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 65 | $189 |
| Methylprednisolone | 31 | $177 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 27 | $121 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 27 | $86 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Richmond
- Joseph MeterRichmond$9K
- Ilvy CotterellRichmond$6K
- Keith GlowackiRichmond$4K
- Jessica FrankenhoffRichmond$2K
- John BlankRichmond$350
- Lance DavlinNorfolk$165K
- Chad MankeVa Beach$104K
- Frank GwathmeyNorfolk$68K
- Angelo DacusCharlottesville$57K
- Kacy PeekCharlottesville$31K
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.