Stephanie Goldberg, MD
Surgery · Richmond, VANPI 1841409042
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $31,440 of the $33,251 with a category attached, or 94.6%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by UCB, Inc. at 58.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $19,488, 9.6 times the $2,040 reported in 2020. Among surgery clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 33 payments — averaging $1007.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- UCB, Inc.$19K
- UCB SA$5K
- Incyte Corporation$4K
- Novartis Pharma AG$3K
- AbbVie$2K
- Novartis$39
- plus $150 from 7 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $4381.25 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$46K
- UCB SA$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,44095%
- Travel & lodging$1,3584%
- Food & beverage$4531%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| UCB, Inc. | 14 | $19,488 |
| UCB SA | 3 | $4,800 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $3,773 |
| Novartis Pharma AG | 1 | $3,000 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $2,000 |
| Novartis | 1 | $39 |
| Merck | 1 | $27 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $25 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$33,251 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 675 surgery 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 surgery in Richmond
- Raymond MakhoulRichmond$1.5M
- Kandace McGuireRichmond$82K
- Alfredo CarbonellRichmond$63K
- Ralph LaymanRichmond$62K
- Guilherme Rocha CamposRichmond$32K
- Marlon LevyRichmond$18K
- Carly AllredRichmond$18K
- Zobair YounossiFalls Church$1.2M
- Yassar YoussefNorfolk$1M
- David WeintrittAlexandria$555K
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.