Virginia Nguyen, MD
Surgery · Norfolk, VANPI 1821470998
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.0%), travel and lodging and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 74.1% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,970 and has fallen 83.2% since, to $1,172 in 2025. Among 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.
Across 147 payments — averaging $142.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$16K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$509
- Inari Medical, Inc.$477
- Abbott$455
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$412
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$4,37521%
- Travel & lodging$7,26235%
- Food & beverage$8,79142%
- Education$4992%
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 | 70 | $15,507 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 17 | $2,306 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $509 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 22 | $477 |
| Abbott | 5 | $455 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $412 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $327 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $316 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 7 | $288 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $170 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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.
- HawkOne$5,663
- Endurant$4,609
- ENDURANT IIS$2,192
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$738
- Valiant Captivia$454
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$409
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$361
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$314
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$307
- Penumbra System$272
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$254
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$254
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$246
- OMNILINK ELITE$154
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$147
- Indigo System$140
- JETi All In One Non-Sterile Kit$138
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$137
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$129
- Grafts$128
How this compares
$20,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 23 | $18,900 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 30 | $488 |
| Cilostazol | 13 | $265 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Norfolk
- Yassar YoussefNorfolk$1M
- Mark FontanaNorfolk$40K
- Gregory AdamsNorfolk$15K
- Raymond MakhoulRichmond$1.5M
- Zobair YounossiFalls Church$1.2M
- David WeintrittAlexandria$555K
- Hazem ElarinyVienna$368K
- George GillianLorton$214K
- Joseph GreeneReston$187K
- Lamiere DowningChristiansburg$175K
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.