Has Stuart Gardner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,811 in general payments to Stuart Gardner, MD across 41 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 Stuart Gardner, 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 Stuart Gardner, 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.

Stuart Gardner, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Blacksburg, VANPI 1710983499

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 41.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,206 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $121 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $8,085.

$2,811in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $68.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$1K
Johnson & Johnson$809
Zimmer Biomet$747
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$56
Sonex Health, Inc.$26

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,61057%
Food & beverage$1,20143%

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
Smith+Nephew	7	$1,172
Johnson & Johnson	24	$809
Zimmer Biomet	7	$747
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$56
Sonex Health, Inc.	1	$26

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

$2,811 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 58 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$27,992

Medicare patients

103

Services billed

392

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
Cephalexin	19	$49

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Blacksburg

Nitin GoyalArlington$81.5M
William HamiltonAlexandria$9.3M
Charles EnghArlington$5.5M
James BrowneCharlottesville$4.8M
Kevin FrickaAlexandria$773K
Anthony CarterNewport News$521K
John CardeaRichmond$141K
Andrew NeviaserMc Lean$136K
Robert SershonArlington$94K
Ian DuensingCharlottesville$83K

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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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