Laurel Blakemore
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Fairfax, VANPI 1831289206
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $111,025 of the $139,863 with a category attached, or 79.4%. Stryker accounts for 76.8% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $53,154 and has fallen 67.9% since, to $17,041 in 2025.
Across 196 payments — averaging $713.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$107K
- Highridge Medical LLC$15K
- Medtronic$10K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$3K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$989
- plus $2K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,1844%
- Consulting fees$111,02579%
- Travel & lodging$14,72011%
- Food & beverage$7,8356%
- Gifts$1,0991%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 76 | $107,389 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 22 | $14,550 |
| Medtronic | 49 | $10,217 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 5 | $3,053 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 11 | $1,405 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $989 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $851 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $513 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $235 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $181 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $124 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $104 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $21 |
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.
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$51,820
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$40,224
- XIA$17,504
- TRITANIUM$17,314
- NILE ALTERNATIVE FIXATION SYSTEM$14,160
- MESA$12,352
- Spine-None$10,157
- RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$8,625
- AIRO$5,241
- XIA 3$4,375
- BACS$4,000
- Vital$3,950
- MESA RAIL$3,500
- Mariner$2,735
- NILE$2,026
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$1,926
- Mariner Outrigger$1,802
- Daytona Small Stature$1,466
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$1,129
- The Tether$726
How this compares
$139,863 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 20 pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in Virginia.
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Other pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Fairfax
- George GantsoudesFairfax$2K
- Meryl LudwigFairfax$823
- Laura Gill SealyFairfax$109
- Hans TutenRichmond$276K
- Chad AaronsRichmond$202K
- Chester SharpsRichmond$80K
- Harvey St ClairNorfolk$72K
- Keith BachmannCharlottesville$44K
- Vanna RocchiPortsmouth$13K
- Carl St RemyNorfolk$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.