Has Richard Sample, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $800 in general payments to Richard Sample, MD across 34 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 Richard Sample, 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 Richard Sample, 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.

Richard Sample, MD

Family Medicine · Montgomery, ALNPI 1497713200

Payments from drug & device makers

$800in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $23.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$274
Johnson & Johnson$115
AbbVie$107
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$101
Pfizer$50
AstraZeneca$35
plus $117 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$52666%
Education$27434%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$274
Johnson & Johnson	7	$115
AbbVie	6	$107
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	6	$101
Pfizer	3	$50
AstraZeneca	2	$35
Purdue Pharma L.p.	2	$34
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$25
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$25
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$18
Grifols USA, LLC	1	$15

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.

DERMABOND$137
ETHICON$137

How this compares

$800 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$83,379

Medicare patients

445

Services billed

532

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
Cefdinir	21	$544
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	104	$373
Dexamethasone	13	$64
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	15	$59
Tizanidine Hcl	13	$49
Tramadol Hcl	19	$36
Meloxicam	15	$27

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Randall QuinnCullman$5.4M
Matthew CaldwellAthens$4.1M
Michael CarterHuntsville$3.4M
Howard RubensteinSaraland$3.3M
Randle MiddletonHuntsville$3.3M
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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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