Sugam Vasani, MD
Surgery · Bridgeport, WVNPI 1952507972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.9%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,761 and has fallen 58.0% since, to $1,159 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $194.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Conmed Corporation$48
- Stryker$42
- Molli Surgical (US) Inc$31
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00017%
- Travel & lodging$2,40640%
- Food & beverage$1,23921%
- Education$1,21220%
- Gifts$1653%
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 | 28 | $5,901 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $48 |
| Stryker | 1 | $42 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 1 | $31 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,279
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
How this compares
$6,022 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 162 surgery providers in West Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 65 | $4,507 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 92 | $214 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bridgeport
- Benjamin RaymondBridgeport$10K
- Marc CostaBridgeport$3K
- Darren NeaseCharleston$107K
- Farzad AmiriHuntington$66K
- Brian WhyteBeckley$56K
- Sarah HayekBeckley$44K
- Saad AjmalCharleston$31K
- Matthew Cunningham-HillMorgantown$30K
- Robert ShinCharleston$30K
- Maxwell AlmenoffMorgantown$23K
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.