Device Devices

Seamguard

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

$130Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
294clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $88K
2024 $42K
2025 $146

Payments reported as associated with Seamguard, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Surgery $118K
Family $3,468
Physician Assistant $3,431
Surgical $716
Plastic Surgery $341
Internal Medicine $298

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

Clinicians most associated with Seamguard

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Seamguard. 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)
Carlos Galvani New Orleans, LA Surgery $4,383.05
Jaime Ponce-Portugal Chattanooga, TN Surgery $4,276.27
Vivek Prachand Chicago, IL Surgery $3,587.62
Sameer Alrefai South Boston, VA Surgery $3,109.39
George Woodman Memphis, TN Surgery $2,776.08
Rami Lutfi Chicago, IL Surgery $2,599.64
Basil Yurcisin Raleigh, NC Surgery $2,494.22
Ann Rogers Hershey, PA Surgery $2,420.31
Adeel Shamim Washington, DC Surgery $2,072.31
Juan Blondet-Teixeira Saint Paul, MN Surgery $2,019.76

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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.