Sammar Atassi, MD
Sleep Medicine · Montgomery, WVNPI 1396845137
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 98 payments — averaging $32.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$635
- Amgen$421
- Abbott$335
- Novo Nordisk$273
- Johnson & Johnson$244
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$205
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1756%
- Food & beverage$2,98194%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 30 | $635 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 9 | $421 |
| Abbott | 13 | $335 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $273 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $244 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $205 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 4 | $131 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| GSK | 7 | $119 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $98 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $76 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $64 |
| Resmed Corp | 1 | $53 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $43 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $41 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Novartis | 2 | $35 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $23 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
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
Too few sleep medicine providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 498 | $257,664 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 140 | $158,663 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 166 | $113,528 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 81 | $100,483 |
| AustedoDeutetrabenazine | 32 | $90,553 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 95 | $64,388 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 77 | $57,442 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 66 | $48,573 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 77 | $44,217 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 67 | $38,408 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 53 | $37,986 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 42 | $35,954 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 15 | $28,750 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 45 | $28,532 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 44 | $27,188 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis, Premarin | $41 | $264,169509 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Combivent Respimat, Spiriva Respimat | $20 | $179,553280 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $273 | $171,725154 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $125 | $93,138110 claims |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Austedo | $41 | $90,55332 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Procrit | $244 | $69,32897 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort, Brilinta | $43 | $65,738110 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Arexvy, Breo Ellipta | $119 | $64,506135 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $35 | $48,57366 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $64 | $28,53245 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. There are too few sleep medicine providers in West Virginiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other sleep medicine in Montgomery
- Edmond RobertsWheeling$577
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.