Vincent Sammarco, MD
Sports Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1174593479
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $222,276 of the $361,312 with a category attached, or 61.5%. Extremity Medical accounts for 91.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $80,915 and has fallen 71.7% since, to $22,928 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in OH 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 166 payments — averaging $2176.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Extremity Medical$330K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$16K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$8K
- Ascension Orthopedics, Inc.$3K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$1K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$1K
- plus $3K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$222,27662%
- Consulting fees$120,14033%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5001%
- Travel & lodging$11,1553%
- Food & beverage$5,2201%
- Education$210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Extremity Medical | 79 | $329,912 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 11 | $15,939 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 10 | $7,840 |
| Ascension Orthopedics, Inc. | 4 | $2,516 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 2 | $1,263 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 5 | $1,068 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 6 | $999 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $471 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 30 | $437 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 5 | $243 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $128 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $58 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $21 |
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.
- AXIS$195,650
- IO FiX 2.0$149,423
- IO FiX$72,976
- EXTERNAL FIXATION$16,923
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$7,608
- PANTA NAIL$7,608
- TOTAL FOOT SYSTEM$7,608
- CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$7,608
- EX-FIX$6,825
- External Fixation System$2,669
- FREEDOM WRIST$2,500
- TITAN-SHOULDER$2,500
- PYRO MCP$2,500
- HALLU-LOCK$808
- PROPHECY$441
- INFINITY$268
- Magellan$183
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$165
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$165
- PANGEA$165
How this compares
$361,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 278 sports 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 37 | $21,366 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 144 | $1,215 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 32 | $351 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $326 |
| Gabapentin | 52 | $235 |
| Cephalexin | 17 | $137 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 15 | $25 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 17 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $437 | $21,36637 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 278 sports medicine providers in Ohio.
Other sports medicine in Cincinnati
- Melissa SummersCincinnati$89K
- Brian GraweCincinnati$50K
- Timothy KremchekCincinnati$28K
- George MaticCincinnati$22K
- Michelle AndrewsCincinnati$22K
- Ian RiceCincinnati$14K
- Samir SharrakCincinnati$12K
- David FlaniganColumbus$915K
- Thomas EllisDublin$427K
- Paul SaluanCleveland$367K
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.