Has Wirt Cross, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,756 in general payments to Wirt Cross, MD across 62 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 Wirt Cross, 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 Wirt Cross, 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.

Wirt Cross, MD

Surgery · Richmond, VANPI 1669512018

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,756in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $173.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$10K
Medtronic$428
Covidien LP$201
Stryker$124
Johnson & Johnson$67
Davol Inc.$51
plus $226 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$5005%
Travel & lodging$1,68616%
Food & beverage$2,05319%
Education$6,50060%
Gifts$160%

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
Intuitive Surgical	22	$9,660
Medtronic(2 entities)	16	$428
Covidien LP	7	$201
Stryker	2	$124
Johnson & Johnson	1	$67
Davol Inc.	2	$51
Lifenet Health	2	$50
Smith+Nephew	2	$35
BD	1	$28
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	2	$24
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$21
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$21
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
Merck	1	$16
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$13

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

$10,756 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 675 surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$40,500

Medicare patients

Services billed

161

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
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates	44	$2,807
Omeprazole	12	$105
Oxycodone Hcl	19	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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