Kathy Sam, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1427203819
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,073 payments — averaging $21.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$2K
- Merck$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$1K
- Novartis$1K
- plus $13K from 54 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2351%
- Food & beverage$22,67098%
- Education$2161%
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.
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.
- Elahere$235
- PreciseTumor$106
How this compares
$23,122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 90 | $1,368,286 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 48 | $1,093,130 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 58 | $973,652 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 64 | $944,862 |
| Lenalidomide | 39 | $722,836 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 28 | $401,411 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 38 | $371,758 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 19 | $263,541 |
| TukysaTucatinib | 12 | $260,707 |
| PromactaEltrombopag Olamine | 20 | $257,880 |
| LynparzaOlaparib | 16 | $248,902 |
| NeulastaPegfilgrastim | 29 | $179,209 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 12 | $163,099 |
| KeytrudaPembrolizumab | 14 | $157,077 |
| AranespDarbepoetin Alfa In Polysorbat | 63 | $96,883 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaTagrisso, Lynparza, Calquence | $1,786 | $1,385,65386 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCVerzenio | $750 | $1,368,28690 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $1,366 | $1,093,13048 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis, Retacrit | $661 | $1,026,027207 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $192 | $401,41128 claims |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie CompanyImbruvica | $472 | $371,75838 claims |
| AmgenNeulasta, Aranesp | $562 | $276,09292 claims |
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $517 | $263,54119 claims |
| Seagen Inc.Tukysa | $373 | $260,70712 claims |
| NovartisPromacta | $1,294 | $257,88020 claims |
| MerckKeytruda | $1,661 | $157,07714 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Orgovyx | $47 | $72,02028 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
Other hematology & oncology in Houston
- Elias JabbourHouston$264.1M
- Luhua WangHouston$79.6M
- Courtney DinardoHouston$74M
- Jorge Cortes-FrancoHouston$59.4M
- William WierdaHouston$58.7M
- Koji SasakiHouston$39.2M
- Loretta NastoupilHouston$18.3M
- Christopher FlowersHouston$17.2M
- Philip ThompsonHouston$13.6M
- Naval DaverHouston$13.6M
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.