Patrick Oconnell, MD
Sports Medicine · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1154340180
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (28.4%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.9%.
Across 92 payments — averaging $126.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$3K
- Lifenet Health$2K
- Fortis Surgical, LLC$2K
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$586
- Engage Uni, LLC$428
- plus $2K from 19 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $68.26 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Lifenet Health$68
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5004%
- Travel & lodging$3,30528%
- Food & beverage$3,20528%
- Education$2,99626%
- Gifts$1141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 17 | $2,658 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $2,000 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 7 | $1,956 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 3 | $1,860 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $586 |
| Engage Uni, LLC | 2 | $428 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $377 |
| Stryker | 11 | $346 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $175 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $155 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 7 | $146 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 3 | $120 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $117 |
| Responsive Arthroscopy Inc | 1 | $101 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Abbott | 1 | $36 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $33 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $15 |
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
$11,620 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 171 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 37 | $353 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $141 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $104 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 15 | $70 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $26 |
| Amoxicillin | 21 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Virginia Beach
- Justin GriffinVirginia Beach$1.5M
- Kevin BonnerVirginia Beach$1.1M
- Samuel RobinsonVirginia Beach$20K
- Zachary BraigVirginia Beach$11K
- Kinjal SohagiaVirginia Beach$8K
- David DiduchCharlottesville$3.8M
- Thorp DavisMechanicsville$3M
- Stephen BrockmeierCharlottesville$2.6M
- William NordtRichmond$2.6M
- Brian WernerCharlottesville$1.2M
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.