Has Steven Hughes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $89,325 in general payments to Steven Hughes, MD across 52 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 Steven Hughes, 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 Steven Hughes, 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.

Steven Hughes, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · McLean, VANPI 1255349148

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $75,012 of the $89,325 with a category attached, or 84.0%. Globus Medical accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $23,946, 4.2 times the $5,767 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$89,325in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $1717.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$84K
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$5K
Boston Scientific$89
Medtronic$63
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$56
Amgen$16

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$75,01284%
Consulting fees$8,0509%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,5004%
Travel & lodging$1,8402%
Food & beverage$9241%

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
Globus Medical	40	$83,927
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	4	$5,175
Boston Scientific	4	$89
Medtronic	1	$63
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	2	$56
Amgen	1	$16

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

$89,325 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 473 orthopaedic surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$320,385

Medicare patients

631

Services billed

1,908

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
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	34	$163
Methylprednisolone	26	$158

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in McLean

Dale YoungNorth Chesterfield$10.9M
James DowdVirginia Beach$6.1M
Mark de BloisNorth Chesterfield$4M
Cato LaurencinCharlottesville$3.5M
Randall PeytonSterling$2.9M
William MihalkoCharlottesville$2M
David MillerNorth Chesterfield$1.7M
Keith LawhornFairfax$1.6M
Joseph GonduskyVirginia Beach$1.2M
Joshua HerzogNorth Chesterfield$1M

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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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