Samuel Yelverton, MD
Surgery · Jackson, MSNPI 1689038168
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $18,000 of the $25,024 with a category attached, or 71.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 79.2% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery 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.
Across 117 payments — averaging $213.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$20K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$3K
- Davol Inc.$409
- Medtronic$232
- Smith+Nephew$225
- TELA Bio, Inc.$224
- plus $1K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,73611%
- Travel & lodging$2711%
- Food & beverage$4,01616%
- Education$18,00072%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 34 | $19,810 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 4 | $2,775 |
| Davol Inc. | 14 | $409 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $232 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $225 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $224 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $157 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $152 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $136 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $99 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $92 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $74 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 4 | $59 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $34 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Distalmotion US | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $21 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $12 |
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
$25,024 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 223 surgery providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Scopolamine | 12 | $480 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 53 | $303 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 24 | $269 |
| Ibuprofen | 38 | $76 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 23 | $65 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $60 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Jackson
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- Juvonda HodgeJackson$77K
- Jonathan CarrollJackson$33K
- Andrew MalletteJackson$29K
- Alison AcottJackson$26K
- Kenneth ClevelandJackson$20K
- David CarrollJackson$18K
- Gina HeathJackson$16K
- Jenetta ThompsonJackson$16K
- James RooksJackson$15K
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.