Stefan Leichtle, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Fairfax, VANPI 1700028172
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (32.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 58.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,147, 3.4 times the $926 reported in 2019.
Across 16 payments — averaging $285.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Conmed Corporation$800
- BD$350
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$242
- Acumed LLC$126
- Johnson & Johnson$125
- plus $266 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,15025%
- Travel & lodging$1,15625%
- Food & beverage$75917%
- Education$1,50033%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $2,656 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $800 |
| BD | 1 | $350 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 4 | $242 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $116 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $108 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,126
- HemoSphere$350
- RibLoc$126
- MATRIXRIB$125
- GIAPREZA$118
- EXPAREL$116
- AdvantageRib$108
How this compares
$4,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 60 surgical critical care 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 surgical critical care in Fairfax
- George KasotakisFairfax$25K
- Mohamad ZanbrakjiFairfax$3K
- Jennifer SchwartzFairfax$598
- Jeffrey LittRichmond$54K
- Michael MartyakNorfolk$47K
- Lunzy BrittNorfolk$33K
- Mack DrakeRichmond$21K
- Alexander EvansSalem$16K
- Jay JohannigmanCharlottesville$16K
- Alexa ShawNorfolk$12K
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.