Samer Hijaz, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Fredericksburg, VANPI 1316267669
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,955 of the $4,608 with a category attached, or 64.1%. Penumbra, Inc. accounts for 62.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,096 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $302 in 2025.
Across 86 payments — averaging $53.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$600
- Sirtex Medical Inc$426
- Boston Scientific$179
- Inari Medical, Inc.$168
- Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.$128
- plus $231 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,60235%
- Food & beverage$2,95564%
- Education$511%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 17 | $2,877 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 24 | $600 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 19 | $426 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $179 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $128 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $37 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| BD | 1 | $15 |
| Guerbet LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $13 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$4,608 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 136 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Virginia.
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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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Fredericksburg
- Gustavo EliasFredericksburg$8K
- Richard DohertyFredericksburg$4K
- Jeffrey HullRichmond$10.8M
- Ziv HaskalCharlottesville$724K
- Keith SterlingSpringfield$357K
- John GaughenCharlottesville$253K
- Jawad HussainRichmond$248K
- Sandeep BaglaFalls Church$146K
- Aaron DucoffeFairfax$108K
- Ryan McTaggartRoanoke$103K
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.