Amer Samdani
Neurological Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1760461537
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,959,151 of the $4,410,584 with a category attached, or 67.1%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimvie Inc. at 30.1% of the total. Among neurological surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 1,202 payments — averaging $3669.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimvie Inc.$1.3M
- Zimmer Biomet$939K
- Highridge Medical LLC$813K
- Globus Medical$585K
- Medtronic$331K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$164K
- plus $253K from 8 others
Across 53 payments — averaging $8048.55 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$219K
- Zimmer Biomet$174K
- Zimvie Inc.$34K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,959,15167%
- Consulting fees$1,268,01629%
- Speaking & faculty fees$69,0002%
- Grants$2830%
- Travel & lodging$97,8362%
- Food & beverage$16,2760%
- Entertainment$230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimvie Inc. | 196 | $1,325,735 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 313 | $938,535 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 69 | $812,766 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 247 | $585,230 |
| Medtronic | 133 | $330,700 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 83 | $164,255 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 98 | $156,324 |
| Stryker | 38 | $46,370 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 16 | $43,707 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $5,580 |
| Mirus, LLC | 2 | $805 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 2 | $316 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $179 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $83 |
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.
- The Tether$1,641,944
- Vitality$1,048,119
- Vital$551,149
- RELINE$328,806
- EXPEDIUM$184,772
- STRATAFIX$94,331
- DERMABOND$91,114
- TRIALTIS$68,082
- ExcelsiusGPS$48,960
- Vital Deformity$37,600
- MAKO$30,555
- Pulse$28,140
- Vital MIS$24,600
- TrellOss$24,600
- Vitality Power$24,450
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$23,276
- Mobi-C$22,169
- Polaris 4.75 Spinal System$20,850
- Walter$17,250
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$14,400
How this compares
$4,410,584 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Other neurological surgery in Philadelphia
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$823K
- Joshua HellerPhiladelphia$519K
- Srinivas PrasadPhiladelphia$513K
- Chengyuan WuPhiladelphia$377K
- John ShinPhiladelphia$306K
- Omar ChoudhriPhiladelphia$304K
- Pascal JabbourPhiladelphia$198K
- Casey HalpernPhiladelphia$186K
- Steven FulopPhiladelphia$140K
- Kyle MuellerPhiladelphia$138K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.