William Elias
Neurological Surgery · Charlottesville, VANPI 1548339161
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,500 of the $5,260 with a category attached, or 66.5%. Cortigent Inc accounts for 66.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 28 payments — averaging $187.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cortigent Inc$4K
- Insightec,inc$1K
- Medtronic$174
- Abbott$125
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$117
- Insightec,ltd$92
- plus $171 from 2 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $35,843 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Boston Scientific$534K
- Insightec,ltd$506K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,50067%
- Travel & lodging$3046%
- Food & beverage$1,37626%
- Education$802%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cortigent Inc | 7 | $3,500 |
| Insightec,inc | 13 | $1,083 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $174 |
| Abbott | 1 | $125 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $117 |
| Insightec,ltd | 1 | $92 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $91 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $80 |
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
$5,260 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 156 neurological 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.
Other neurological surgery in Charlottesville
- Justin SmithCharlottesville$2.3M
- Ryan KelloggCharlottesville$245K
- Juan Sardi RestrepoCharlottesville$128K
- Chun Po YenCharlottesville$90K
- Jason SheehanCharlottesville$13K
- Dale DingCharlottesville$10K
- Pedro Norat Guimaraes Barroso MagnoCharlottesville$7K
- Shayan MoosaCharlottesville$5K
- David VincentVirginia Beach$959K
- Mudit SharmaManassas$714K
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.