Andres Samayoa, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Huntsville, ALNPI 1699038497
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (38.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Baxter Healthcare at 36.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,330 and has fallen 78.3% since, to $724 in 2025.
Across 103 payments — averaging $113.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Abiomed$624
- Artivion, Inc.$322
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,71032%
- Travel & lodging$1,83416%
- Food & beverage$4,45338%
- Education$1,72915%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 14 | $4,249 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 23 | $2,028 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 12 | $1,857 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $1,630 |
| Abiomed | 12 | $624 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $322 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $286 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $108 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $79 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 4 | $72 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Abbott | 1 | $45 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $38 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Cook Biotech Incorporated | 1 | $27 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- FLOSEAL$1,980
- TISSEEL$1,855
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,500
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,333
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$681
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$241
- Impella$237
- HemoSphere$156
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$148
- CoreValve Evolut$138
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$132
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$128
- ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$109
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$103
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$103
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$103
How this compares
$11,726 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 68 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Alabama.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 30 | $18,679 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 33 | $534 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 63 | $428 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 49 | $260 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 53 | $242 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 96 | $240 |
| Carvedilol | 36 | $185 |
| Famotidine | 32 | $134 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 34 | $121 |
| Potassium Chloride | 44 | $104 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 18 | $103 |
| Methocarbamol | 32 | $91 |
| Lisinopril | 19 | $56 |
| Furosemide | 51 | $42 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Huntsville
- Frans VanwagenbergHuntsville$68K
- Shaf HoldenHuntsville$32K
- Gregory ThomasHuntsville$16K
- Juan GallegosHuntsville$9K
- Richard ClayHuntsville$6K
- Thomas WashburnHuntsville$3K
- Kyle EudaileyBirmingham$184K
- Carlton RandlemanBirmingham$161K
- James DaviesBirmingham$99K
- Parvez SultanVestavia$81K
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.