Has Samera Kasim, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $276,169 in general payments to Samera Kasim, DO across 390 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 Samera Kasim, DO 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 Samera Kasim, DO 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.

Samera Kasim, DO

Orthopaedic Surgery · Monterey, CANPI 1902113483

Payments from drug & device makers

$276,169in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 390 payments — averaging $708.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$168K
Zimmer Biomet$92K
Smith+Nephew$12K
Restor3d, Inc.$2K
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$1K
Amgen$416
plus $694 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$176,78464%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,5081%
Travel & lodging$52,52519%
Food & beverage$17,8056%
Education$25,5489%

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
Stryker(2 entities)	201	$167,773
Zimmer Biomet	144	$92,020
Smith+Nephew	22	$12,014
Restor3d, Inc.	1	$2,134
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.	4	$1,119
Amgen	4	$416
Johnson & Johnson	5	$249
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.	3	$221
Encore Medical, LP	1	$93
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$80
Boston Scientific	2	$46
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$6

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.

BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$118,544
TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$47,315
AEQUALIS PERFORM$31,164
Comprehensive Shoulder System$24,645
TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$23,650
TORNIER PERFORM ANATOMIC AUGMENTED GLENOID$23,650
SIMPLICITI$22,931
AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$19,023
AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$15,220
Juggerknotless Soft Anchor$13,011
AEQUALIS REVERSED II$7,200
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$7,007
TAPESTRY$5,163
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$4,805
AEQUALIS$3,600
PRO$3,349
BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$1,457
InSet System$1,119
GRAVITY SYNCHFIX$346
NA$256

How this compares

$276,169 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$480,856

Medicare patients

915

Services billed

8,151

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	186	$6,028
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	93	$1,019
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	40	$475
Meloxicam	94	$314
Amoxicillin	105	$272
Gabapentin	33	$199
Diazepam	70	$162
Tramadol Hcl	55	$154
Oxycodone Hcl	22	$150
Diclofenac Sodium	17	$143
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	26	$130
Ibuprofen	15	$109
Ondansetron Hcl	54	$88
Clindamycin Hcl	13	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Monterey

Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M

See the full list for California →

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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