Has Amer Alame, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $51,061 in general payments to Amer Alame, MD across 205 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Amer Alame, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Amer Alame, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Amer Alame, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Saint Clair Shores, MINPI 1093975542

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $36,000 of the $51,061 with a category attached, or 70.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 85.0% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $31,140 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $947 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$51,061in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 205 payments — averaging $249.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$43K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Medtronic$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Davol Inc.$507
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$369
plus $1K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$6,38112%
Food & beverage$8,66717%
Education$36,00071%
Gifts$140%

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
Intuitive Surgical	42	$43,426
Johnson & Johnson	78	$2,309
Medtronic(2 entities)	47	$2,141
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	9	$1,250
Davol Inc.	7	$507
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries	2	$369
TELA Bio, Inc.	7	$355
Acera Surgical, Inc.	3	$189
Avanos Medical	1	$140
BD	1	$126
Covidien LP	1	$100
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$47
Smith+Nephew	1	$22
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$19
Cook Medical LLC	1	$16
Merck	1	$16
Palette Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$15
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$15

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$43,032
STRATAFIX$1,255
INTERSTIM$1,221
HARMONIC Product Family$1,141
ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,141
PHASIX$586
Echelon Circular$414
ECHELON ENDOPATH$373
Phasix Mesh$279
Echelon Flex$267
CONTOUR$245
Restrata Wound Matrix$160
ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$140
Enseal X1$114
Harmonic$114
OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$114
Echelon Powered Circular$104
Surgicel Powder$104
Prineo 42$104
VISTASEAL$101

How this compares

$51,061 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 72 colon & rectal surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$208,540

Medicare patients

418

Services billed

971

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	347	$5,966
Lubiprostone	13	$2,290
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine	33	$1,770
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	94	$1,686
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl	46	$1,649
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	19	$1,011
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg	14	$335
Omeprazole	24	$182
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	11	$180
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	35	$147
Neomycin Sulfate	14	$85
Metronidazole	21	$28

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other colon & rectal surgery in Saint Clair Shores

Amanda McClureYpsilanti$150K
Anthony SenagoreSaginaw$126K
Robert ClearyYpsilanti$121K
Melissa ChangYpsilanti$82K
Shawn WebbDetroit$63K
Jasneet BhullarRochester Hills$58K
Kenneth BarkRochester Hills$50K
Ernesto DrelichmanSouthfield$20K
Murad Bani HaniRochester Hills$18K
Surya NalamatiDetroit$18K

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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.

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