Mena Samaan, MD
Vascular Neurology · Fayetteville, NCNPI 1437590320
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,496 of the $12,245 with a category attached, or 61.2%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Penumbra, Inc. at 33.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,242 and has fallen 95.4% since, to $240 in 2025.
Across 119 payments — averaging $102.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$4K
- Microvention, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Imperative Care, Inc$659
- plus $510 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,49661%
- Food & beverage$4,74539%
- Gifts$40%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 15 | $4,151 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 9 | $2,041 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $1,906 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $1,853 |
| Stryker | 38 | $1,125 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 19 | $659 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $185 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $125 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| CGG Medical Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- Penumbra System$3,470
- Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$1,712
- TRUFILL$1,712
- Pipeline$1,482
- STENT$1,148
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$745
- Benchmark$232
- Smart Coil$213
- EVOLVE$159
- TARGET$145
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$131
- ZOOM REPERFUSION CATHETER$131
- ZAVZPRET$125
- Fycompa$102
How this compares
Too few vascular neurology providers in North Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | 50 | $43,842 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 32 | $19,444 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 150 | $1,760 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 108 | $1,030 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 99 | $961 |
| Famotidine | 21 | $517 |
| Levetiracetam | 15 | $473 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 20 | $149 |
| Baclofen | 13 | $77 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $125 | $43,84250 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $14 | $19,44432 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. There are too few vascular neurology providers in North Carolinaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other vascular neurology in Fayetteville
- Tibor BecskeRaleigh$346K
- Shailesh MaleGreenville$4K
- Jindong XuGreensboro$2K
- Aabishkar BhattaraiDurham$494
- Matthew EhrlichDurham$181
- Sara HassaniDurham$129
- Anusha BoyanpallyGreenville$121
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.