Has Jacob Sams, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,566 in general payments to Jacob Sams, MD across 64 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 Jacob Sams, 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 Jacob Sams, 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.

Jacob Sams, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Mt. Zion, ILNPI 1730340498

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,566in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $118.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$5K
Arthrex$1K
Stryker$721
Smith+Nephew$66
Johnson & Johnson$46
Organogenesis Inc.$43

$10,363in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $5181.56 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.

Canary Medical USA LLC$10K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,62535%
Travel & lodging$85211%
Food & beverage$2,78637%
Education$1,30317%

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
Zimmer Biomet	41	$5,358
Arthrex	3	$1,333
Stryker	15	$721
Smith+Nephew	2	$66
Johnson & Johnson	1	$46
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$43

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

$7,566 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$403,901

Medicare patients

652

Services billed

3,993

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
Celecoxib	144	$3,766
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	196	$2,878
Enoxaparin Sodium	17	$2,463
Ondansetron Hcl	115	$1,148
Tramadol Hcl	231	$647
Meloxicam	301	$587
Methylprednisolone	58	$319
Cephalexin	148	$228
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	14	$220
Dexamethasone	109	$210
Amoxicillin	57	$51
Clindamycin Hcl	22	$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Mt. Zion

Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
Kamal IbrahimOakbrook Terrace$4.9M
Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
Steven MatherDowners Grove$4.3M
Steven MardjetkoMorton Grove$4.3M
Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M

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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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