Trauma Surgery in Virginia
15 providers, $36,457 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 trauma surgery clinicians in Virginia
Across 11 trauma surgery clinicians in Virginia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $462,621 in total — an average of $42,056 each, of which $42,056 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
- 1Tedla TessemaFredericksburg$10,744
- 2Aparna KolliFredericksburg$9,464
- 3Elizabeth FrancoFalls Church$4,696
- 4Jonathan WalshPortsmouth$4,169
- 5Kojo WallaceLynchburg$2,823
- 6Lissa SakataAlexandria$1,191
- 7Lauren RusyWinchester$1,097
- 8Zachary BrownPortsmouth$971
- 9Richard SharpePortsmouth$380
- 10Thomas DavisChesapeake$335
- 11Miguel MatosRoanoke$208
- 12Andrew KungPortsmouth$148
- 13Patrick SheahanFalls Church$100
- 14Donald KauderFredericksburg$69
- 15Kathleen NealonRichmond$63