Samer Najjar, MD
Vascular Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1346292547
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,075 of the $5,539 with a category attached, or 73.6%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.5%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,488 and has fallen 55.4% since, to $663 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $62.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$746
- Boston Scientific$714
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$506
- Johnson & Johnson$421
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$366
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,37525%
- Food & beverage$4,07574%
- Other$892%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 5 | $1,136 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $746 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $714 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $506 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $421 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 13 | $366 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $347 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $302 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $254 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $165 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $144 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $89 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,117
- CORBEL$347
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$281
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$253
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$246
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$233
- Ranger$228
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$153
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$146
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$144
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$142
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$135
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$135
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$135
- XARELTO$124
- VenaSeal$122
How this compares
$5,539 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 170 vascular surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 29 | $288 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $212 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Chicago
- Ross MilnerChicago$1.3M
- Trissa BabrowskiChicago$292K
- Heron RodriguezChicago$105K
- Mark EskandariChicago$51K
- Calvin ChaoChicago$39K
- Clayton BrinsterChicago$34K
- Neel MansukhaniChicago$28K
- Matthew ChiaChicago$25K
- Margaret ReillyChicago$23K
- Courtney FurloughChicago$23K
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.