Hanna Sams, MD
Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1760977714
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $108.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$669
- Artivion, Inc.$492
- Zimmer Biomet$390
- TELA Bio, Inc.$348
- AbbVie$332
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,42638%
- Food & beverage$3,75059%
- Education$1372%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 9 | $2,374 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $669 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $492 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $390 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $348 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $332 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $329 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $277 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $244 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $229 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $216 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $142 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $57 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,156
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$733
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$348
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$309
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$287
- Impella$254
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$244
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$244
- AdvantageRib$244
- XARELTO$125
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$121
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$121
- A&E MEDICAL / STERNALOCK XP RIGID FIXATION SYSTEM$121
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$111
- VAC ULTA$111
- ACTIVAC$111
- PREVENA$111
- ABTHERA$111
- VAC VERAFLO$111
How this compares
$6,314 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 surgery in Columbia
- Arthur CoolerColumbia$25K
- Kurt FichtnerColumbia$22K
- Christopher WatsonColumbia$21K
- David MoffatColumbia$21K
- Jacob HesseyColumbia$18K
- Michael FitzgeraldColumbia$16K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$892K
- Steven KahnCharleston$433K
- Hongjie YuanGreenville$431K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
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.