Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Sameh Ward

Interventional Pain Medicine Johnson City, TN Medical Doctor

NPI 1215987938 CMS profile 100862

101 Med Tech Pkwy, Suite 200, Johnson City, TN 37604

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General payments

$6,200

326 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Sameh Ward of Johnson City, TN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,200 across 326 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 62nd percentile of Interventional Pain Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $705 29
2024 General $264 14
2023 General $1,460 66
2022 General $1,642 65
2021 General $709 36
2020 General $416 37
2019 General $1,004 79

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Sameh Ward
  • Interventional Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Interventional Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Sameh Ward were reported at $705. Among 1,891 Interventional Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $657 and the middle half received between $184 and $1,753.

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Year Sameh Ward Interventional Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $1,004 $684 $216–$2,079 $163
2020 $416 $382 $122–$1,109 $114
2021 $709 $552 $167–$1,554 $132
2022 $1,642 $605 $187–$1,924 $149
2023 $1,460 $671 $195–$1,915 $160
2024 $264 $684 $206–$1,837 $164
2025 $705 $657 $184–$1,753 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $2,548 116 payments
  2. Medtronic USA, Inc. $703 70 payments
  3. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $588 38 payments
  4. Nevro Corp. $459 15 payments
  5. SPR Therapeutics, Inc $418 1 payment
  6. Boston Scientific Corporation $314 20 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $188 12 payments
  8. Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. $181 11 payments
  9. Globus Medical, Inc. $116 2 payments
  10. Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. $95 7 payments
  11. Other $590 34 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,604 324 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $595 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM $1,196 75 payments
  2. OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM $818 8 payments
  3. ADAPTIVESTIM $503 58 payments
  4. Omnia $445 9 payments
  5. SPRINT PNS System $418 1 payment
  6. XTAMPZA $382 34 payments
  7. Accurian $256 5 payments
  8. BELBUCA $206 4 payments
  9. WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16 $199 16 payments
  10. INTELLIS $170 9 payments
  11. Other $1,724 119 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 12 drugs

Part D claims

360

Median for Interventional Pain Management: 1,220

Drug cost

$7,315

Median for Interventional Pain Management: $39,344

Branded share of claims

22.5%

Median for Interventional Pain Management: 34.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Oxcarbazepine Generic 59 $2,247
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 27 $945
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 32 $861
Morphine Sulfate Er Morphine Sulfate Brand 22 $849
Tramadol Hcl Generic 55 $485
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 47 $375
Ropinirole Hcl Generic 30 $313
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 25 $304
Pregabalin Generic 15 $268
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 13 $262

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 1,476 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Pain Management; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 34 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$34,901

Of which drugs: $151

Medicare patients

134

Average age 74

Services billed

1,351

79 women, 55 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Depression 49%
Diabetes 38%
Chronic kidney disease 36%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
COPD 30%
Heart failure 21%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

3 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ZTLido
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. $16
$16 — —
Tirosint
  • IBSA Pharma Inc. $7
$7 — —
Licart
  • IBSA Pharma Inc. $7
$7 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

326 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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