Stephen Lin, MD
Surgery · Chesapeake, VANPI 1063688117
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 35 payments — averaging $31.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$203
- Intuitive Surgical$189
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$108
- Medtronic$103
- Stryker$69
- Smith+Nephew$48
- plus $381 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$938%
- Food & beverage$1,00892%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $203 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $189 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $103 |
| Stryker | 2 | $69 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $48 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $46 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $30 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $19 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $18 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $15 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- LOTEMAX SM$108
How this compares
$1,101 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 31 | $190 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Chesapeake
- Zobair YounossiFalls Church$5.4M
- Harry BearRichmond$2M
- Raymond MakhoulRichmond$1.5M
- Yassar YoussefNorfolk$1M
- David WeintrittAlexandria$555K
- Steven HopsonNewport News$451K
- Hazem ElarinyVienna$368K
- George GillianLorton$247K
- Clifford SmithNewport News$187K
- Joseph GreeneReston$187K
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.