Samuel Samuel, MD
Pain Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1619065281
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 127 payments — averaging $44.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$977
- Nevro Corp.$959
- Globus Medical$605
- Abbott$518
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$422
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$377
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,592100%
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 | 11 | $977 |
| Nevro Corp. | 15 | $959 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $605 |
| Abbott | 7 | $518 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 15 | $422 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 4 | $377 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $251 |
| Amgen | 9 | $206 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 3 | $167 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 6 | $137 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $135 |
| Captiva Spine Inc | 1 | $107 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $102 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $100 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $28 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $25 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $23 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $15 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 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.
- Senza$845
- Intracept$434
- Evoke$358
- Omnia$246
- Proclaim IPG$148
- Octrode SCS Leads$140
- PROCLAIM$135
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$128
- ELSA ATP$121
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$110
- Transfasten$107
- mild Device Kit$101
- Prometra II$100
How this compares
$5,592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 37 | $1,963 |
| Pregabalin | 70 | $1,714 |
| Gabapentin | 95 | $944 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $542 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $397 |
| Meloxicam | 81 | $318 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 33 | $307 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 20 | $278 |
| Topiramate | 34 | $208 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 23 | $202 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $145 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $138 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $134 |
| Prednisone | 32 | $92 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Cleveland
- Nagy MekhailCleveland$687K
- Robert BolashCleveland$640K
- Jijun XuCleveland$332K
- Salim HayekCleveland$311K
- Aman UpadhyayCleveland$40K
- Trishul KapoorCleveland$33K
- Edward CovingtonCleveland$28K
- Jianguo ChengCleveland$23K
- Kush GoyalCleveland$22K
- Jacob EzellCleveland$12K
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.