Sameer Naranje
Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1891098851
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,021 of the $11,781 with a category attached, or 68.1%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 26.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,469 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $72 in 2025.
Across 132 payments — averaging $89.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Omnilife Science, Inc$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$674
- Corin USA$599
- plus $2K from 16 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $1425.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$6K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,76032%
- Food & beverage$8,02168%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 27 | $3,069 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 19 | $2,032 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 24 | $1,711 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 12 | $1,474 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $674 |
| Corin USA | 5 | $599 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 5 | $401 |
| Stryker | 6 | $379 |
| Biom'up SA | 3 | $258 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $125 |
| Amgen | 1 | $122 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $114 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 4 | $114 |
| Abbott | 1 | $107 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $101 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $100 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 4 | $85 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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.
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$1,029
- OMNIBotics 3.0$1,009
- GMK SPHERE$989
- Legion Revision$912
- Navio Surgical System$905
- ROSA$804
- CellerateRx$368
- Various Products$350
- MAKO$245
- AMISTEM$179
- ACCORD$147
- ROSA-Knee$134
- LEGION TKS$132
- Velys$124
- Zilretta$122
- Knees Product Portfolio$119
- Persona$119
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$113
- OSS-Knees$111
- Journey II XR$109
How this compares
$11,781 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.
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 | 11 | $327 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 58 | $310 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $173 |
| Meloxicam | 45 | $170 |
| Gabapentin | 23 | $125 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 42 | $120 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $87 |
| Amoxicillin | 11 | $9 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Birmingham
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.5M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.2M
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$217K
- Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K
- Marcus RothermichBirmingham$207K
- Daniel KimBirmingham$147K
- Eugene BrabstonBirmingham$117K
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.