Samuel Asante, MD
Neurological Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1609308279
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $9,376 of the $11,856 with a category attached, or 79.1%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 41.1% of the total.
Across 65 payments — averaging $181.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$1K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$1K
- VB Spine LLC$839
- Medtronic$582
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9,37679%
- Food & beverage$2,48021%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 11 | $4,836 |
| Globus Medical | 16 | $1,580 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $1,425 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 8 | $1,245 |
| VB Spine LLC | 2 | $839 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $582 |
| Stryker | 4 | $551 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $434 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $121 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $35 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $27 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$4,554
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,363
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,130
- CREO MIS Stabilization System$653
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$543
- STRATA$170
- INCEPTIV$138
- FLOSEAL$121
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$112
- N/A$106
How this compares
$11,768 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 114 neurological surgery providers in South Carolina.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Greenville
- Jan Vargas MachajGreenville$207K
- James WigintonGreenville$18K
- Tyler SparksGreenville$16K
- Christie MinaGreenville$13K
- Phillip HodgeGreenville$10K
- Sharon WebbGreenville$5K
- Earl TroupGreenville$3K
- Alejandro SpiottaCharleston$894K
- David JonesRock Hill$540K
- Sabino DagostinoLadson$425K
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.