Albert Sam, MD
Vascular Surgery · Alexandria, VANPI 1396736971
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,389 of the $3,378 with a category attached, or 70.7%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 41.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,306, 2.2 times the $591 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $4,916.
Across 52 payments — averaging $64.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$518
- Cook Medical LLC$323
- Inari Medical, Inc.$243
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$204
- Medtronic$177
- plus $507 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$94328%
- Food & beverage$2,38971%
- Education$461%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $1,406 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $518 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 8 | $323 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $243 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $204 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $177 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $161 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $127 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Tactile Systems Technology 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.
How this compares
$3,378 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 143 vascular surgery providers in Virginia.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other vascular surgery in Alexandria
- Jean PannetonVirginia Beach$1.3M
- John DeitrickRichmond$684K
- Rasesh ShahChesapeake$465K
- David DexterNorfolk$404K
- Samuel SteermanVirginia Beach$252K
- Joseph BabrowiczFairfax$202K
- Joshua AdamsRoanoke$138K
- Richard NevilleFalls Church$114K
- Anthony ComerotaFalls Church$107K
- Animesh RathoreNorfolk$83K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.