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Surgical Asset Management (Sam)

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Surgical Asset Management (Sam). "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$52Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
2clinicians with associated payments
3companies reporting

By year

2023 $52K

Payments reported as associated with Surgical Asset Management (Sam), per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Pediatric Surgery $46K
Emergency Medicine $5,721

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Surgical Asset Management (Sam)

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Surgical Asset Management (Sam). They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Peter Nichol Madison, WI Pediatric Surgery $45,964.25
Jonathan Velez Hartford, CT Emergency Medicine $5,720.51

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.