Has Abbass Shafii, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,355 in general payments to Abbass Shafii, MD across 122 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Abbass Shafii, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Abbass Shafii, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Abbass Shafii, MD

Gastroenterology · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1548218662

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,355in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $19.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$350
Johnson & Johnson$269
Gilead$260
AbbVie$217
Lilly USA, LLC$200
Bristol Myers Squibb$150
plus $909 from 18 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,29097%
Education$653%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	24	$350
Johnson & Johnson	11	$269
Gilead	14	$260
AbbVie	12	$217
Lilly USA, LLC	9	$200
Bristol Myers Squibb	8	$150
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	6	$118
Ardelyx, Inc.	5	$108
Sanofi	4	$106
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$98
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$69
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$60
QOL Medical, LLC	3	$60
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$57
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$55
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	2	$29
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$22
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$22
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$21
Pfizer	1	$21
Novo Nordisk	1	$19
Conmed Corporation	1	$18
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	1	$13
Medtronic	1	$13

How this compares

$2,355 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 304 gastroenterology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$82,876

Medicare patients

314

Services billed

737

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
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg	198	$4,429
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac	11	$1,899
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates	24	$1,439
Sucralfate	14	$1,347
Pantoprazole Sodium	147	$1,008
Omeprazole	21	$553
Famotidine	14	$443
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	20	$400
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	23	$363
Procto-Med HcHydrocortisone	11	$92

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Colorado Springs

Bhaktasharan PatelColorado Springs$22M
Douglas AdlerColorado Springs$1.2M
Thomas WeltonColorado Springs$182K
Diana ArseneColorado Springs$61K
Bryan KavanaughColorado Springs$26K
Lukasz KowalczykColorado Springs$25K
Thomas MeisterColorado Springs$17K
Marcelo KugelmasEnglewood$2.7M
Masi KhajaGrand Junction$1.2M
Peter McNallyFt Carson$1.1M

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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.

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