Has Sammy Becdach received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,890 in general payments to Sammy Becdach across 246 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 Sammy Becdach 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 Sammy Becdach 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.

Sammy Becdach

Hematology & Oncology · Decatur, ALNPI 1497726137

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.8% of the total across 246 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 44 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 10.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,440 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $16 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for hematology & oncology clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $7,159.

$3,890in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 246 payments — averaging $15.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Amgen$412
Novartis$357
Merck$347
Johnson & Johnson$329
Pfizer$275
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$270
plus $2K from 38 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1554%
Food & beverage$3,53391%
Education$2015%

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
Amgen	20	$412
Novartis	23	$357
Merck	23	$347
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	24	$329
Pfizer	22	$275
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	22	$270
Astellas Pharma US Inc	5	$170
Sanofi	8	$151
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	8	$145
Genentech USA, Inc.	9	$133
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	10	$131
Eisai Inc.	5	$76
Bayer	5	$75
Tesaro, Inc.	3	$75
Gilead(2 entities)	5	$75
Seagen Inc.	5	$71
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$58
Biocompatibles, Inc.	3	$57
Incyte Corporation	3	$52
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$46
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	3	$41
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$41
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$40
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$38
GSK	2	$37
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$33
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	2	$29
Dova Pharmaceuticals	2	$29
Secura Bio, Inc.	1	$27
Exelixis Inc.	2	$26
Acrotech Biopharma Inc.	2	$24
EMD Serono, Inc.	2	$23
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$22
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$21
Advanced Accelerator Applications	1	$19
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$19
Array Biopharma Inc	1	$17
Myovant Sciences Inc.	1	$16
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$16
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.	1	$15
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$15
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13
Clovis Oncology, Inc.	1	$12
Epizyme, Inc.	1	$12

How this compares

$3,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 177 hematology & oncology providers in Alabama.

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Other hematology & oncology in Decatur

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Heather ShahDecatur$17K
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Pankit VachhaniBirmingham$545K
Luciano CostaBirmingham$409K
Khaleel AshrafBirmingham$379K
Michael BirrerBirmingham$302K
Rudolph NavariBirmingham$254K
Mayur NarkhedeBirmingham$193K
Midhun MallaBirmingham$144K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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