Yisheng Cao
Orthopaedic Surgery · Lynchburg, VANPI 1134680929
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.4%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.7%.
Across 110 payments — averaging $155.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Medwest Associates$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- plus $3K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$810%
- Grants$1,5009%
- Travel & lodging$6,75339%
- Food & beverage$6,32837%
- Education$2,40014%
- Charitable contribution$570%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 20 | $4,056 |
| Medwest Associates | 6 | $2,453 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $2,364 |
| Stryker | 12 | $2,205 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 23 | $1,777 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 11 | $1,524 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $936 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $343 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $280 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $196 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Abbott | 1 | $154 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $144 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $142 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 3 | $138 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $20 |
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.
- ACUMED$2,808
- OsteoMed$1,872
- VIPER$1,512
- INFUSE BONE GRAFT$1,500
- PRO$1,043
- Velys$851
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$649
- ALLOWRAP$649
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$649
- Teligen$506
- NA$441
- XLIF$337
- ALIF$329
- Excelsius - GPS$327
- EXPEDIUM$300
- Distal Femur Plate System$286
- TROCH NAIL$286
- EVO Retrograde$286
- Proximal Tibia Plate$286
- FIBERGRAFT Aeridyan Matrix$268
How this compares
$17,119 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 473 orthopaedic surgery providers in Virginia.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Lynchburg
- Dale YoungNorth Chesterfield$10.9M
- James DowdVirginia Beach$6.1M
- 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
- Joseph GonduskyVirginia Beach$1.2M
- Joshua HerzogNorth Chesterfield$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.