Robert Kelly
Pediatric Surgery · Norfolk, VANPI 1396752838
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $792,716 of the $797,140 with a category attached, or 99.4%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $354,088 and has fallen 65.7% since, to $121,484 in 2025. Among pediatric 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 27 payments — averaging $29,524 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$796K
- Acumed LLC$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$113
- Conmed Corporation$26
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$792,71699%
- Consulting fees$3,1500%
- Travel & lodging$8220%
- Food & beverage$4520%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 19 | $795,986 |
| Acumed LLC | 5 | $1,015 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $113 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $26 |
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.
- MEDLINE$475,414
- NexGen$317,303
- Pectus Next Generation$3,150
- RibLoc$946
- BioBridge$946
How this compares
$797,140 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 31 pediatric surgery providers in Virginia.
Other pediatric surgery in Norfolk
- Donald NussNorfolk$2.5M
- Robert ObermeyerNorfolk$844K
- Michael GoretskyNorfolk$3K
- Marcia KuhnNorfolk$802
- Frazier FrantzNorfolk$260
- Natalie O'NeillNorfolk$199
- Katherine DavenportNorfolk$165
- Jamie GoldenNorfolk$154
- Sarah WilliamsonNorfolk$94
- David LanningRichmond$29K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.