Dr. Luke Hodgson Balsamo, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• Sentara Albemarle Medical Center Hospital · Elizabeth City, NC · listed as Sentara Albemarle Regional Medical Center
• Sentara Leigh Hospital Hospital · Norfolk, VA · listed as Sentara Hospitals
• Sentara Princess Anne Hospital Hospital · Virginia Beach, VA
• Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Hospital · Norfolk, VA
• Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital Hospital · Virginia Beach, VA
• Albemarle Home Care And Hospice Home health agency · Elizabeth City, NC
• Enhabit Home Health (Va Beach) Home health agency · Virginia Beach, VA

Colleagues at Vann-Virginia Center for Orthopaedics PC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 66 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Michael Andrew Campbell, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Norfolk, VA
• Mr. Andrew B Coulter, PT Physical Therapist · Virginia Beach, VA
• Jonathan Alexander Hull, PA-C Physician Assistant · Norfolk, VA
• Mrs. Cynthia Ashley Larsen, MPT, OCS, ATC, CSCS Physical Therapist · Virginia Beach, VA
• Chad R Manke, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Va Beach, VA
• Dr. George Raymond Payne III, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Va Beach, VA
• Dr. Ryan Patrick Ponton, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Virginia Beach, VA
• Beth D Taylor, DPT Physical Therapist · Virginia Beach, VA
• Ruth Grantham Tubb, OT Hand Occupational Therapist · Norfolk, VA
• Kyle Valentine Physician Assistant · Virginia Beach, VA
• Abby Wheeler, PA-C Surgical Physician Assistant · Virginia Beach, VA
• Claire Reyes Williams, DPT Physical Therapist · Virginia Beach, VA

Other providers in Portsmouth

• Dr. George Christian Balazs, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1841497625

  620 John Paul Jones Cir, Portsmouth, VA 23708-2111 · (757) 953-1823

• Steven Charles Blasdell, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1114929361

  3300 High St Ste 1, Portsmouth, VA 23707-3321 · (757) 673-5680

• Dr. Grant Kuhio Cochran, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1164743035

  620 John Paul Jones Cir, Portsmouth, VA 23708-2111 · (757) 953-1823

• Dr. Thomas Ray Cullison, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1306807003

  620 John Paul Jones Cir, Portsmouth, VA 23708-2111 · (757) 953-7424

• Ann Elizabeth Gietler, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1255458360

  620 John Paul Jones Cir, Portsmouth, VA 23708-2111 · (757) 953-7550