Has Ryan Vellinga, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,861 in general payments to Ryan Vellinga, MD across 42 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ryan Vellinga, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ryan Vellinga, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ryan Vellinga, MD

Sports Medicine · Arlington, WANPI 1295172716

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $7,653 of the $10,861 with a category attached, or 70.5%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 45.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,872 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $348 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in WA 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.

$10,861in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $258.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$5K
Arthrex$2K
Stryker$2K
Summit Surgical Corp.$1K
Zimmer Biomet$296
Linvatec Corporation$261
plus $563 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,36613%
Food & beverage$1,84317%
Education$7,65370%

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
Smith+Nephew	7	$4,978
Arthrex	4	$1,681
Stryker(2 entities)	10	$1,664
Summit Surgical Corp.	2	$1,418
Zimmer Biomet	4	$296
Linvatec Corporation	1	$261
Vericel Corporation	1	$125
Extremity Medical	1	$120
Johnson & Johnson	2	$80
Invictus Surgical Incorporated	2	$67
DJO, LLC	2	$60
Bioventus LLC	2	$41
Merck	2	$34
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$23
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc	1	$14

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.

NA$1,036
SALVATION$322
BioBrace 23mm$261
Comprehensive Shoulder System$144
INSPACE$135
Foot and Ankle$126
MACI$125
BIOLOGICS CONSUMABLES BONE REPAIR CELLULAR BONE GRAFTING KIT$123
ROSA$109

How this compares

$10,861 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 132 sports medicine providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$72,086

Medicare patients

113

Services billed

509

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
Naproxen	30	$251
Oxycodone Hcl	42	$197
Gabapentin	19	$131
Doxycycline Hyclate	25	$110
Meloxicam	15	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Arlington

Brett HallArlington$6K
Geoffrey HiggsProsser$569K
Nicholas KennedyYakima$112K
Nicholas VaudreuilEverett$49K
Adam PourchoSeattle$38K
Christopher WahlIssaquah$37K
Nicholas WilcoxMarysville$36K
Mathew TaylorPullman$36K
Brandon NudelmanBellevue$32K
Judd FitzgeraldKennewick$14K

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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.

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