Has Samuel Li, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,622 in general payments to Samuel Li, MD across 93 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 Samuel Li, 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 Samuel Li, 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.

Samuel Li, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Arlington, VANPI 1902300643

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,585 of the $10,622 with a category attached, or 62.0%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Synthes GmbH at 26.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,898 and has fallen 75.2% since, to $1,708 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $18,012.

$10,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 93 payments — averaging $114.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Synthes GmbH$3K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
Globus Medical$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Medtronic$1K
Stryker$598
plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,77436%
Food & beverage$6,58562%
Education$2632%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Synthes GmbH	5	$2,766
Alphatec Spine, Inc	20	$2,258
Globus Medical(2 entities)	12	$1,623
Johnson & Johnson	16	$1,174
Medtronic	21	$1,166
Stryker	6	$598
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$263
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$184
Moximed, Inc	1	$137
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$134
Amgen	1	$119
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	2	$54
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$50
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$48
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$27
Smith+Nephew	1	$21

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.

INVICTUS OPEN$881
Other - Miscellaneous$811
Captivate VL$472
N/A$463
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$426
Teligen$306
INCEPTIV$268
EXPEDIUM$263
Vivigen MIS Delivery System$236
CREO ONE Robotic Screw$170
FORTIFY$169
CREO MIS Stabilization System$169
MARS Anterior Retractor$169
MAZOR X SYSTEM$163
MISHA KNEE SYSTEM, SMALL, LEFT$137
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$127
TLIF$121
ACP$121
FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$120
KRYSTEXXA$119

How this compares

$10,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$46,698

Medicare patients

119

Services billed

422

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	12	$87
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	13	$74

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Arlington

Corey WallachArlington$77K
Jed VanichkachornRichmond$2.3M
Christopher GoodReston$1.7M
John SimpsonRichmond$880K
Colin HainesReston$700K
Ehsan JaziniReston$502K
Francis ShenCharlottesville$432K
Jeffrey CarlsonNewport News$295K
Thomas SciosciaRichmond$274K
Thomas SullivanMidlothian$83K

See the full list for Virginia →

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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