Has Samer Saouma, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $32,547 in general payments to Samer Saouma, MD across 99 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 Samer Saouma, 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 Samer Saouma, 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.

Samer Saouma, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Staten Island, NYNPI 1386025823

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $22,292 of the $32,547 with a category attached, or 68.5%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 39.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $20,260 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $1,202 in 2025.

$32,547in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 99 payments — averaging $328.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$13K
Boston Scientific$11K
Abbott$5K
Biotronik Inc.$2K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$367
Atricure, Inc.$264
plus $460 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Grants$22,29268%
Travel & lodging$3,94012%
Food & beverage$5,43917%
Education$8773%

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
Medtronic	34	$12,943
Boston Scientific	23	$10,935
Abbott	11	$5,108
Biotronik Inc.	13	$2,471
Biosense Webster, Inc.	9	$367
Atricure, Inc.	2	$264
AstraZeneca	2	$187
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	2	$149
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$68
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	1	$44
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$13

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.

EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$3,862
GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,114
VersaCross Access Solution$715
AVEIR$300
Acticor 7 VR-T DX$246
BioMonitor$148
Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System$139
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$137
AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$132
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$127
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$127
AMVIA EDGE$122
WATCHMAN Access System$115
Carto 3$106

How this compares

$32,547 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 214 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$65,950

Medicare patients

160

Services billed

424

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
EliquisApixaban	41	$35,946
Amiodarone Hcl	27	$261
Metoprolol Succinate	22	$259
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	16	$162
Metoprolol Tartrate	31	$81

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Staten Island

Marcin KowalskiStaten Island$119K
Valay ParikhStaten Island$49K
Vivek ReddyNew York$14.9M
Jacob KoruthNew York$3.7M
Srinivas DukkipatiNew York$2.7M
Amir AhmadiNew York$789K
Larry ChinitzNew York$448K
Felix YangBrooklyn$407K
James IpNew York$347K
Stavros MountantonakisManhasset$321K

See the full list for New York →

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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