Has Seth Cheatham, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,752 in general payments to Seth Cheatham, MD across 23 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 Seth Cheatham, 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 Seth Cheatham, 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.

Seth Cheatham, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Richmond, VANPI 1225245228

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,752in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $76.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$1K
RTI Surgical, Inc$272
Fortis Surgical, LLC$100
Vericel Corporation$62
Medtronic$35
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$20

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,752100%

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
Smith+Nephew	15	$1,262
RTI Surgical, Inc	2	$272
Fortis Surgical, LLC	1	$100
Vericel Corporation	2	$62
Medtronic	2	$35
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$20

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.

Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$149
SPATIAL FRAME$149
ULTRABUTTON$146
Fast-Fix 360$146
Double Pump RF$145
Dyonics Bonecutter$145
Coblation$145
BIOCLEANSE ACHILLES TENDON$140
Q-FIX$137
Acufex$137
CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$132
Regeneten$121
NOVOSTITCH$106

How this compares

$1,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 473 orthopaedic surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$51,099

Medicare patients

158

Services billed

348

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
Lidocaine	19	$1,133
Diclofenac Sodium	22	$253
Meloxicam	67	$156
Ibuprofen	19	$136
Tramadol Hcl	11	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Richmond

Colin MudrickRichmond$424K
Jonathan IsaacsRichmond$343K
Matthew WalkerRichmond$265K
Michael WindRichmond$230K
Ryan RobertsonRichmond$133K
Anup GangavalliRichmond$127K
Gregory GolladayRichmond$105K
Norman BoardmanRichmond$91K
Dale YoungNorth Chesterfield$10.9M
James DowdVirginia Beach$6.5M

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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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