Steven Hopson, MD
Surgery · Newport News, VANPI 1437155165
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (54.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 72.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $30,842, 3.7 times the $8,394 reported in 2019. 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 181 payments — averaging $307.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$41K
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Covidien LP$4K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- Conmed Corporation$189
- Kerecis Limited$110
- plus $223 from 8 others
Across 65 payments — averaging $6202.56 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.
- Medtronic$360K
- Covidien LP$43K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,7259%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,16354%
- Travel & lodging$11,41721%
- Food & beverage$5,0489%
- Education$4,2268%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 120 | $40,537 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 33 | $8,199 |
| Covidien LP | 7 | $4,445 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $1,876 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $189 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $110 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Merck | 2 | $41 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $31 |
| Cardinal Health 414 LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 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.
- TRANSORB$17,501
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,362
- AbsorbaTack$5,766
- ProGrip$4,760
- OviTex 2S$1,842
- Signia$1,440
- ROTICULATOR$176
- TruClear$117
How this compares
$55,578 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 50 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Newport News
- Clifford SmithNewport News$70K
- Lisa ColemanNewport News$15K
- William NewcombNewport News$15K
- Raymond MakhoulRichmond$1.5M
- Zobair YounossiFalls Church$1.2M
- Yassar YoussefNorfolk$1M
- David WeintrittAlexandria$555K
- Hazem ElarinyVienna$368K
- George GillianLorton$214K
- 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.