Mark de Blois
Orthopaedic Surgery · North Chesterfield, VANPI 1548214372
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,466,512 of the $3,967,501 with a category attached, or 87.4%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Medtronic. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,466,512 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $6,678 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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 11 payments — averaging $360,682 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4M
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,466,51287%
- Other$500,98913%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $3,967,501 |
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.
- Ellipsys$3,888,405
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$79,096
How this compares
$3,967,501 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 473 orthopaedic surgery providers in Virginia.
Other orthopaedic surgery in North Chesterfield
- Dale YoungNorth Chesterfield$10.9M
- David MillerNorth Chesterfield$1.7M
- Joshua HerzogNorth Chesterfield$1M
- Miles BirminghamNorth Chesterfield$89K
- James DowdVirginia Beach$6.1M
- Cato LaurencinCharlottesville$3.5M
- Randall PeytonSterling$2.9M
- William MihalkoCharlottesville$2M
- Keith LawhornFairfax$1.6M
- Joseph GonduskyVirginia Beach$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.