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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $109,271 in general payments to Samuel Putnam, MD across 237 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 Putnam, 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 Putnam, 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 Putnam, MD

Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Southaven, MSNPI 1023066404

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $67,000 of the $109,271 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Sirtex Medical Inc accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $34,819 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $116 in 2025.

$109,271in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 237 payments — averaging $461.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sirtex Medical Inc$72K
Angiodynamics, Inc.$34K
Boston Scientific$2K
Johnson & Johnson$321
Penumbra, Inc.$236
Terumo Medical Corporation$143
plus $440 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$67,00061%
Travel & lodging$5,0035%
Food & beverage$4,4444%
Education$18,54617%
Other$14,27813%

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
Sirtex Medical Inc	74	$72,154
Angiodynamics, Inc.	48	$33,595
Boston Scientific	86	$2,381
Johnson & Johnson	10	$321
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$236
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$143
Vasorum USA Inc.	2	$78
Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.	2	$76
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	3	$65
Cook Medical LLC	1	$64
Triad Life Sciences Inc.	1	$58
Medtronic	2	$36
Guerbet LLC	1	$19
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$17
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$17
Cardiovascular Systems 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.

SIR-Spheres Microspheres$70,976
Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$32,667
GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$340
ELUVIA$220
POD$125
Bead Block 900-1200$125
Indigo System$111
Auryon Atherectomy Catheter 1.5 mm OTW$111
Ranger$103

How this compares

Too few vascular & interventional radiology providers in Mississippito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,384,779

Medicare patients

207

Services billed

12,016

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
Methylprednisolone	227	$1,833
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	210	$796
Famotidine	205	$350
Ibuprofen	104	$342
IbuIbuprofen	57	$168
NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal	11	$127

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular & interventional radiology in Southaven

Matthew HyattJackson$16K
Ajinkya DesaiJackson$10K
Dustin ReedJackson$6K
Lashyra CottonCleveland$6K
James ThomassonJackson$5K
Garth CampbellJackson$4K
Kathryn ParvinJackson$3K
Amanda JohnsonCalhoun City$2K
Patrick SewellCanton$1K
Vipin PatelFlowood$438

See the full list for Mississippi →

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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