Obesity Medicine in Virginia
13 providers, $262,039 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays obesity medicine clinicians in Virginia
Across 8 obesity medicine clinicians in Virginia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $550,267 in total — an average of $68,783 each, of which $68,783 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Michael JonesLynchburg$158,816
- 2Sarah StombaughCharlottesville$87,046
- 3Sree GogineniVienna$4,198
- 4Lauren OutlawFalls Church$3,295
- 5Daphne BryanRichmond$2,467
- 6Rohit SuriFairfax$1,815
- 7Justin LindseySalem$1,388
- 8Arshad AliArlington$1,058
- 9Rachel ChastanetChesapeake$1,048
- 10Patricia McClendonAlexandria$430
- 11Ronald JohnsonFredericksburg$318
- 12Daseuli JeongFairfax$125
- 13Nicanor SutingcoHampton$34