Sameer Puri
Indianapolis, IN. NPI 1477780898. Hand Surgery.
What was reported, 2019–2025
- $11.0 thousand
- General payments
- $10,983
- 63 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.
- $0
- Research payments
- Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.
- $0
- Ownership and investment
- The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.
- 0
- Disputed
- This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.
What the payments were
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| Nature of payment | Amount |
|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $4,582 |
| Consulting Fee | $2,700 |
| Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program | $1,575 |
| Education | $1,229 |
| Travel and Lodging | $897 |
Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.
By program year
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| Program year | General | Research |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,042 | $0 |
| 2024 | $467 | $0 |
| 2023 | $2,468 | $0 |
| 2022 | $1,269 | $0 |
| 2021 | $5,401 | $0 |
| 2020 | $25 | $0 |
| 2019 | $312 | $0 |
CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.
The record
- National Provider Identifier
- 1477780898
- The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.
- Specialty
- Hand Surgery
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians, in CMS's taxonomy.
- Licensed in
- IL
- The state of the license CMS lists first.
- Recipient type
- Covered Recipient Physician
- How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.
Medicare prescribing
What this provider billed to Medicare Part D in 2024, as CMS published it. Medicare Part D only: what they prescribed outside it is not here.
- 44
- Claims
- Prescriptions and refills billed to Part D, as CMS counts them.
- $203
- Total drug cost
- What Part D, the plan and the patient paid together. Not what this provider was paid — they are paid nothing out of it.
- 33
- Beneficiaries
- People with at least one prescription from this provider.
- 0
- Brand-name claims
- Of the claims above, those for a brand-name drug.
- 44
- Generic claims
- Of the claims above, those for a generic.
- 33
- Opioid claims
- CMS puts this provider's opioid prescribing rate at 75% of their claims. That is their figure, computed from their own unsuppressed data.
- not reported
- Antibiotic claims
- Claims for an antibiotic.
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Prescriber type
- As CMS classifies this prescriber. Credentials: M.D..
A blank is not a zero. CMS withholds a value between 1 and 10, and withholds the next lowest alongside it so the first cannot be worked out by subtraction — so a withheld figure is not even evidence that the number was small. Rows for ten or fewer claims are removed from the file altogether, which is why the parts of a total can be withheld while the total is published.
Elsewhere
- Payments to doctors in Indiana — what was reported across the state this doctor practises in.
- What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
- This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
- The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.
Data retrieved
Sources
- Open Payments — payments grouped by physician — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026