Marco Castro, MD
Neurology · Fairfax, VANPI 1245209766
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $28.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$323
- Lilly USA, LLC$169
- UCB, Inc.$90
- AbbVie$63
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$57
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$49
- plus $525 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$635%
- Food & beverage$1,21395%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $323 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $169 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $63 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Biogen | 2 | $43 |
| Novartis | 2 | $43 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Amgen | 1 | $35 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $32 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $22 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Eisai 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.
- VNS Therapy$260
- KISUNLA$119
How this compares
$1,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 474 neurology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate | 57 | $136,180 |
| RebifInterferon Beta-1a/Albumin | 11 | $134,306 |
| EpidiolexCannabidiol (Cbd) | 22 | $124,975 |
| GammakedImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 | 11 | $102,702 |
| KeppraLevetiracetam | 25 | $79,664 |
| BriviactBrivaracetam | 46 | $65,040 |
| Keppra XrLevetiracetam | 24 | $55,794 |
| LamictalLamotrigine | 48 | $49,738 |
| OnfiClobazam | 14 | $28,855 |
| Lamotrigine OdtLamotrigine | 32 | $24,141 |
| Lacosamide | 171 | $23,855 |
| VimpatLacosamide | 20 | $21,954 |
| Lamotrigine ErLamotrigine | 16 | $14,553 |
| Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine | 52 | $11,723 |
| Levetiracetam | 289 | $10,974 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom | $57 | $136,18057 claims |
| EMD Serono, Inc.Rebif | $47 | $134,30611 claims |
| UCB, Inc.Briviact, Vimpat | $90 | $86,99366 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 474 neurology providers in Virginia.
Other neurology in Fairfax
- Rahul DaveFairfax$1M
- John RothrockFairfax$504K
- James SimsarianFairfax$173K
- Laura CinskiFairfax$124K
- Abigail LawlerFairfax$107K
- Michelle BetzVirginia Beach$3.3M
- Daniel CohenNorfolk$2.9M
- Heidi CraytonVienna$2.5M
- Ramsey FalconerAlexandria$2.4M
- Robert ShinCharlottesville$2.2M
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.