Has Samuel Polk, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,919 in general payments to Samuel Polk, MD across 146 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 Samuel Polk, MD 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 Samuel Polk, MD 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.

Samuel Polk, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Southaven, MSNPI 1437252780

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,974 of the $5,919 with a category attached, or 84.0%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 49.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,406, 8.8 times the $273 reported in 2019. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in MS with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$5,919in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 146 payments — averaging $40.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$3K
Abbott$1K
Medtronic$513
Nevro Corp.$302
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$260
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$167
plus $338 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$94516%
Food & beverage$4,97484%

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
Boston Scientific	70	$2,921
Abbott	37	$1,418
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$513
Nevro Corp.	4	$302
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	6	$260
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$167
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$87
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$53
Globus Medical	2	$38
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$36
Pfizer	2	$32
Stryker	1	$29
Vertex	1	$24
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$23
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$15

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

$5,919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 21 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$228,856

Medicare patients

909

Services billed

2,966

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	81	$784
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	38	$662
Gabapentin	26	$391
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	16	$327
Tizanidine Hcl	41	$164
Cephalexin	20	$121
Methylprednisolone	19	$99
Meloxicam	11	$43
Tramadol Hcl	13	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Southaven

Mark CunninghamSouthaven$150
Philip BlountJackson$103K
Parker BellHattiesburg$5K
Joshua TuckerPascagoula$5K
Devin WellsOxford$2K
Barbara BarnardHattiesburg$2K
Michael WinkelmanFlowood$2K
David CollippFlowood$2K
Jennifer May VillacortaJackson$1K
Hyung KimJackson$1K

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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.

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