Has Sam Badran, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,694 in general payments to Sam Badran, MD across 18 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 Sam Badran, 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 Sam Badran, 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.

Sam Badran, MD

Gynecology · Point Pleasant, WVNPI 1639745201

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $7,500 of the $8,694 with a category attached, or 86.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,077, more than ten times the $47 reported in 2022.

$8,694in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $483.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$8K
AstraZeneca$125
Boston Scientific$51
Astellas Pharma US Inc$35
GSK$28
Organon$19
plus $15 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$87910%
Food & beverage$3164%
Education$7,50086%

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
Intuitive Surgical	11	$8,422
AstraZeneca	1	$125
Boston Scientific	1	$51
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$35
GSK	1	$28
Organon	1	$19
Minerva Surgical, Inc	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.

How this compares

Too few gynecology providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$5,876

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Estradiol	27	$1,737
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	22	$175
Enoxaparin Sodium	14	$69
Fluconazole	11	$34

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gynecology in Point Pleasant

Robert DepondCharleston$29K
Samantha ChaffinRonceverte$2K
Derek KaznoskiMartinsburg$2K
Leigh MasseyWheeling$732
Vidya PuranikBeckley$147
Lisa SkinnerMadison$88
John BattaglinoWheeling$67
Ernest FloresElkins$23

See the full list for West Virginia →

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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