Has William Byrd, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $100,929 in general payments to William Byrd, MD across 171 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 William Byrd, 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 William Byrd, 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.

William Byrd, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1528301520

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $80,050 of the $100,929 with a category attached, or 79.3%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medacta USA, Inc. at 52.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $46,003, more than ten times the $3,493 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.

$100,929in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 171 payments — averaging $590.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medacta USA, Inc.$53K
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$27K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$15K
Johnson & Johnson$3K
Stryker$3K
Zimmer Biomet$488
plus $722 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$80,05079%
Travel & lodging$12,79313%
Food & beverage$8,0868%

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
Medacta USA, Inc.	80	$52,681
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.	4	$27,220
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	21	$14,647
Johnson & Johnson	27	$2,646
Stryker	18	$2,524
Zimmer Biomet	5	$488
Smith+Nephew	6	$233
Exactech, Inc.	4	$226
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	1	$143
Bioventus LLC	3	$70
Deroyal Industries, Inc.	1	$26
Convatec Inc.	1	$24

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.

GMK SPHERE$25,410
GMK Sphere Revision System$23,591
ACTIS$2,871
MAKO$1,910
ATTUNE$1,091
AMISTEM$828
SPHERIKA$625
AMIStem H Femoral Stems$274
Velys$245
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$142
ROSA$139
Persona$139
VELYS Hip Navigation$108
Kincise Surgical Automated System$108
MPACT$104
TFN-Advance$104

How this compares

$100,929 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

$680,173

Medicare patients

1,002

Services billed

6,990

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
Meloxicam	406	$914
Celecoxib	22	$565
Methylprednisolone	45	$325
Amoxicillin	126	$149
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	13	$138
Cephalexin	12	$116
Oxycodone Hcl	25	$105
Clindamycin Hcl	18	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Virginia Beach

James DowdVirginia Beach$6.1M
Joseph GonduskyVirginia Beach$1.2M
Blake MooreVirginia Beach$100K
Dale YoungNorth Chesterfield$10.9M
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

See the full list for Virginia →

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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