Sammy Cox, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Amarillo, TXNPI 1659312775
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,934 of the $9,698 with a category attached, or 81.8%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 33.2% of the total.
Across 287 payments — averaging $33.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$3K
- Abiomed$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$407
- Medtronic$369
- Boston Scientific$188
- plus $805 from 14 others
Across 40 payments — averaging $8940.46 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- American Regent$312K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$25K
- Abbott$12K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$9K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,61217%
- Food & beverage$7,93482%
- Education$1522%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik Inc. | 54 | $3,220 |
| Abiomed | 91 | $2,842 |
| Abbott | 99 | $1,868 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 14 | $407 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $369 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $188 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $168 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $127 |
| Novartis | 1 | $80 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $46 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $17 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 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.
- Impella$360
- Micra$174
- General - Balloon Catheters$132
- VYNDAQEL$110
- Orsiro Mission$104
How this compares
$9,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
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 | 862 | $819,927 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 133 | $129,184 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 93 | $99,902 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 81 | $77,732 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 69 | $54,858 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 65 | $41,910 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 24 | $28,006 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 738 | $12,133 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 16 | $11,848 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 1,053 | $10,628 |
| Valsartan | 215 | $6,773 |
| Potassium Chloride | 246 | $5,496 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 430 | $5,276 |
| Carvedilol | 604 | $4,960 |
| Losartan Potassium | 417 | $4,449 |
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 | $127 | $819,927862 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $80 | $129,184133 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $46 | $77,73281 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. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
Other cardiovascular disease in Amarillo
- David BrabhamAmarillo$121K
- Ramin Farzaneh-FarDallas$17.1M
- John OsborneGrapevine$1.3M
- Darren McGuireDallas$1.2M
- Peter McCulloughDallas$664K
- Ann NavarDallas$616K
- Biykem BozkurtHouston$606K
- Milton PackerDallas$530K
- Amarinder BindraDallas$512K
- Robert SalazarKingwood$478K
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.