Samuel Carstensen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Pelham, ALNPI 1679990592
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 65 payments — averaging $156.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$5K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$3K
- Smith+Nephew$643
- Johnson & Johnson$602
- Acumed LLC$226
- Amgen$78
- plus $442 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00030%
- Travel & lodging$1,10511%
- Food & beverage$2,56125%
- Education$3,49734%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 9 | $4,750 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 9 | $3,422 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $643 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $602 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $226 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $78 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $78 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $58 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $54 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Stryker | 1 | $14 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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
$10,163 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.
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 | 16 | $9,129 |
| Naproxen | 187 | $1,758 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 29 | $944 |
| Celecoxib | 80 | $757 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 90 | $692 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 133 | $659 |
| Meloxicam | 151 | $527 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 40 | $428 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 47 | $207 |
| Gabapentin | 114 | $149 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 55 | $129 |
| Cephalexin | 38 | $104 |
| Ibuprofen | 19 | $93 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Pelham
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.7M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3.1M
- James SmithGadsden$2.7M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.3M
- Paul CanaleDaphne$609K
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Jeffrey DavisBirmingham$293K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$219K
- Lawrence LemakVestavia$216K
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.