Steven Schaeffer, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Glen Allen, VANPI 1477817336
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 25 payments — averaging $56.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fortis Surgical, LLC$356
- Linvatec Corporation$250
- Arthrex$205
- Stryker$144
- Abbott$127
- Amgen$114
- plus $220 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$50836%
- Food & beverage$90864%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 2 | $356 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $250 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $205 |
| Stryker | 1 | $144 |
| Abbott | 2 | $127 |
| Amgen | 1 | $114 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $29 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $26 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $26 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $22 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- BioBrace 23mm$250
- ORTHOLOC 3DI CROSSCHECK$144
- COLINK VALLUX$136
- COLINK 2$114
- IBS$114
- QUANTUM$114
- HERCULES SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM$114
- KRYSTEXXA$114
- Axium INS DRG IPG$102
How this compares
$1,416 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 260 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 186 | $2,989 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 139 | $1,864 |
| Mupirocin | 106 | $1,424 |
| Ketoconazole | 19 | $611 |
| Methylprednisolone | 99 | $571 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 42 | $304 |
| Ciclopirox | 14 | $217 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $91 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 13 | $89 |
| Naproxen | 14 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Glen Allen
- Ryan VazalesGlen Allen$337K
- Charles ZelenRoanoke$6.2M
- Mark JonesNorth Chesterfield$2.4M
- Oliver SchipperArlington$1.2M
- Steven NeufeldFalls Church$1.2M
- Matthew DairmanSuffolk$376K
- Jugal DhariaFairfax$309K
- William SimonVirginia Beach$292K
- Bradley LevittVirginia Beach$284K
- William GrantVirginia Beach$271K
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.