Thomas Sullivan, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Midlothian, VANPI 1437565488
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $63,376 of the $83,069 with a category attached, or 76.3%. Orthofix Medical, Inc. accounts for 65.8% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $36,800, more than ten times the $50 reported in 2019.
Across 220 payments — averaging $377.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$55K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$11K
- Medtronic$10K
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- plus $4K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$63,37676%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,6008%
- Travel & lodging$4,8916%
- Food & beverage$7,7789%
- Education$4241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 47 | $54,701 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 22 | $10,698 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 54 | $9,507 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 8 | $2,029 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 9 | $1,234 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 40 | $1,161 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 17 | $1,140 |
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 2 | $1,138 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 4 | $401 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $297 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 3 | $184 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 1 | $137 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Stryker | 2 | $84 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Elevate Surgical Co | 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.
- Mariner$28,815
- MISCELLANEOUS$12,429
- Mariner Deformity$9,792
- Admiral$8,250
- Shoreline RT$8,250
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$7,614
- WaveForm C$7,200
- Mariner MIS$6,375
- Regatta Lateral System$5,775
- WaveForm TA$5,000
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,650
- NorthStar$1,264
- Axis Spine Technologies ALIF$1,138
- Other - Miscellaneous$624
- XLIF$397
- Firebird SI Navigation System$260
- CONDUIT$245
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$240
- VIPER$240
- Excelsius - GPS$235
How this compares
$83,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Virginia.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Midlothian
- Steven FioreMidlothian$25K
- Joseph KimMidlothian$232
- Jed VanichkachornRichmond$2.3M
- Christopher GoodReston$1.7M
- John SimpsonRichmond$880K
- Colin HainesReston$700K
- Ehsan JaziniReston$502K
- Francis ShenCharlottesville$432K
- Jeffrey CarlsonNewport News$295K
- Thomas SciosciaRichmond$274K
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.