John Samani, MD
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Auburn Hills, MINPI 1679678759
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,750 of the $7,899 with a category attached, or 72.8%. Pinnacle, Inc accounts for 73.4% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,416 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $173 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $8,679.
Across 116 payments — averaging $68.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pinnacle, Inc$6K
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$845
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$361
- Zimmer Biomet$152
- Smith+Nephew$144
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$112
- plus $485 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,11427%
- Education$5,75073%
- Other$350%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pinnacle, Inc | 7 | $5,800 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 57 | $845 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 14 | $361 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $152 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $144 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $101 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Stryker | 2 | $40 |
| Vertex | 2 | $38 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $35 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $30 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Embody, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Amgen | 2 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $14 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ROSA$127
How this compares
$7,899 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 35 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 63 | $1,127 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 154 | $965 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 81 | $745 |
| Methylprednisolone | 83 | $440 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 86 | $256 |
| Cephalexin | 82 | $221 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 75 | $180 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Auburn Hills
- Nicholas FrischAuburn Hills$244K
- Michael MasiniYpsilanti$6.3M
- Jeffrey DeclaireRochester$5.4M
- Trevor BankaDetroit$339K
- Timothy EkpoGrand Blanc$295K
- Charles TauntLansing$126K
- Brian de BeaubienSaginaw$117K
- Daniel MeskoLansing$99K
- Anthony GemayelFlint$78K
- Sam Hakki HacketteWarren$40K
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.