Oliver Schipper, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Arlington, VANPI 1396031142
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.5%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novastep Inc. at 39.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $378,755, 8.6 times the $44,289 reported in 2019. Among foot and ankle 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 733 payments — averaging $1602.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novastep Inc.$458K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$309K
- Exactech, Inc.$254K
- Medshape, Inc.$31K
- Restor3d, Inc.$29K
- Vilex LLC$29K
- plus $64K from 36 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$479,59341%
- Consulting fees$558,37048%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,5250%
- Travel & lodging$79,8877%
- Food & beverage$20,5182%
- Other$30,4073%
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.
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.
- NEXIS$314,254
- VANTAGE$196,521
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$181,376
- PECA Bunion Correction System$123,680
- Lapiplasty System$118,551
- PECAPLASTY$75,133
- PECA-C Compressive Implants$31,144
- EQUINOXE$26,304
- BioBrace 23mm$15,131
- HERCULES SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM$14,445
- Artemis Zadex$12,773
- ZADEX$12,519
- INSTRUMENTS$8,700
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$7,300
- NA$6,960
- SUPRAFUSION$6,600
- DCP/LC-DCP PLATES & SCREWS$4,785
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$4,785
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$3,915
- MedShape DynaClip$3,750
How this compares
$1,174,301 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 260 foot and ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 54 | $571 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 19 | $404 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 52 | $241 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Arlington
- Amar GulatiArlington$17K
- Brian GallagherArlington$10K
- Mark JonesNorth Chesterfield$2.4M
- Steven NeufeldFalls Church$857K
- Charles ZelenRoanoke$363K
- Ryan VazalesGlen Allen$337K
- Jugal DhariaFairfax$309K
- William SimonVirginia Beach$292K
- William GrantVirginia Beach$271K
- Bradley LevittVirginia Beach$243K
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.