Preston Waldrop, MD
Sports Medicine · Salem, VANPI 1447292511
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 64 payments — averaging $120.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Fortis Surgical, LLC$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$519
- Zimmer Biomet$346
- plus $685 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,67735%
- Food & beverage$2,87537%
- Education$2,14328%
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 | 5 | $2,017 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 5 | $1,756 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $1,318 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 5 | $1,054 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $519 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $346 |
| Stryker | 4 | $127 |
| Vertex | 4 | $124 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $89 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $75 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $75 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $34 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- HemiCAP Shoulder$1,743
- ATTUNE$539
- Velys$403
- ACTIS$302
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$121
- MOTO Partial Knee System$102
How this compares
$7,695 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 76 | $1,650 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 62 | $496 |
| Meloxicam | 257 | $393 |
| Prednisone | 42 | $370 |
| Sulindac | 14 | $196 |
| Mupirocin | 23 | $142 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Salem
- David DiduchCharlottesville$4M
- Thorp DavisMechanicsville$3M
- Stephen BrockmeierCharlottesville$2.6M
- William NordtRichmond$2.6M
- Justin GriffinVirginia Beach$2.1M
- Kevin BonnerVirginia Beach$1.7M
- Brian WernerCharlottesville$1.6M
- Kenneth ZaslavRichmond$1M
- Asheesh GuptaWoodbridge$467K
- Brandon BryantFairfax$380K
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.