Samuel Simone, MD
Vascular Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1194861146
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 75 payments — averaging $29.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$603
- Organogenesis Inc.$294
- Inari Medical, Inc.$258
- Smith+Nephew$207
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$131
- Stryker$93
- plus $659 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,246100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 15 | $603 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 9 | $294 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $258 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $207 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $131 |
| Stryker | 2 | $93 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $84 |
| Convatec Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $61 |
| Abbott | 2 | $46 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $39 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $35 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $17 |
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
$2,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 236 vascular surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 | 30 | $20,528 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 19 | $15,598 |
| Varenicline Tartrate | 12 | $3,593 |
| Cilostazol | 131 | $1,806 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 108 | $693 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 61 | $476 |
| Cefadroxil | 12 | $123 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $78 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Pittsburgh
- Nathan LiangPittsburgh$551K
- Michel MakarounPittsburgh$241K
- Bart ChessPittsburgh$137K
- Efthymios AvgerinosPittsburgh$127K
- Michael SinghPittsburgh$77K
- Georges Al-KhouryPittsburgh$52K
- Scott ChapmanPittsburgh$21K
- Catherine GoPittsburgh$21K
- Othman Abdul-MalakPittsburgh$18K
- Samuel SimonePittsburgh$18K
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.