Samer Kakish
Orthopaedic Surgery · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1053796391
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Smith+Nephew accounts for 69.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 127 payments — averaging $121.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$11K
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$806
- Zimmer Biomet$704
- Johnson & Johnson$490
- Bone Support Inc.$235
- plus $580 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,18153%
- Food & beverage$7,29847%
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 | 61 | $10,817 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,847 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $806 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $704 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 12 | $490 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $235 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $124 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $110 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $76 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 8 | $30 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Axogen | 1 | $23 |
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.
- EVOS$4,886
- TRIGEN$4,240
- Journey II$3,684
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$2,476
- JOURNEY$2,476
- EVOS MINI$1,693
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$1,443
- Legion Revision$1,151
- OR3O Dual Mobility$1,151
- MAKO$1,059
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$796
- MULTILOC HUMERAL NAIL$679
- TRIGEN InterTAN$384
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$235
- CERAMENT G$235
- POLARSTEM$207
- ACCOLADE$152
- Persona$141
- TRIATHLON$139
- Verasense$139
How this compares
$15,479 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 107 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Mexico.
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 orthopaedic surgery in Albuquerque
- Deana MercerAlbuquerque$901K
- David ChafeyAlbuquerque$108K
- Heather MenzerAlbuquerque$61K
- Ernesto Otero LopezAlbuquerque$50K
- Rick GehlertAlbuquerque$46K
- Jeffrey BeckenbaughAlbuquerque$46K
- Matthew WhartonAlbuquerque$22K
- Jeffrey RaccaAlbuquerque$20K
- Michael ArchibeckAlbuquerque$19K
- Matthew BrownAlbuquerque$11K
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.