Robert Hymes, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Fairfax, VANPI 1740223932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $56,740 of the $77,520 with a category attached, or 73.2%. Stryker accounts for 66.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $40,553 and has fallen 84.5% since, to $6,303 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 119 payments — averaging $651.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$51K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$19K
- Curvafix, Inc.$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$811
- Orthoxel Designated Activity Company$500
- Innovation Technologies Inc$389
- plus $430 from 6 others
Across 45 payments — averaging $7750.49 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.
- Stryker$334K
- Zimmer Biomet$8K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$56,74073%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,7505%
- Travel & lodging$11,86615%
- Food & beverage$5,1647%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 70 | $51,406 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 17 | $18,821 |
| Curvafix, Inc. | 8 | $5,162 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $811 |
| Orthoxel Designated Activity Company | 1 | $500 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 4 | $389 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $141 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $130 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $86 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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
$77,520 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 473 orthopaedic 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Fairfax
- Keith LawhornFairfax$1.6M
- Bradley BoydFairfax$540K
- Christopher SilveriFairfax$184K
- Dale YoungNorth Chesterfield$10.9M
- James DowdVirginia Beach$6.1M
- Mark de BloisNorth Chesterfield$4M
- Cato LaurencinCharlottesville$3.5M
- Randall PeytonSterling$2.9M
- William MihalkoCharlottesville$2M
- David MillerNorth Chesterfield$1.7M
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.