Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery in Virginia
20 providers, $855,140 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,689.
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 pediatric orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Virginia
Across 2 pediatric orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Virginia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $13,458 in total — an average of $6,729 each, of which $6,729 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
- 1Hans TutenRichmond$275,523
- 2Chad AaronsRichmond$201,778
- 3Laurel BlakemoreFairfax$139,863
- 4Chester SharpsRichmond$79,874
- 5Harvey St ClairNorfolk$72,098
- 6Keith BachmannCharlottesville$44,241
- 7Vanna RocchiPortsmouth$12,825
- 8Carl St RemyNorfolk$11,450
- 9Christopher JacksonNorfolk$6,636
- 10Peter MoskalNorfolk$2,689
- 11George GantsoudesFairfax$1,890
- 12Christopher KimNorth Chesterfield$1,692
- 13Joanna HorstmannRichmond$1,537
- 14James CardeliaNorfolk$1,430
- 15Meryl LudwigFairfax$823
- 16Gregory HaleRichmond$323
- 17Leigh LatherCharlottesville$181
- 18Bettina GyrNorfolk$162
- 19Laura Gill SealyFairfax$109
- 20Mark AbelCharlottesville$19