Alok Shah, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Dodge City, KSNPI 1144202474
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $10,493 of the $13,603 with a category attached, or 77.1%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 87.8% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,002 and has fallen 51.3% since, to $2,922 in 2025.
Across 60 payments — averaging $226.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$12K
- Encore Medical, LP$1K
- Stryker$170
- Johnson & Johnson$143
- Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp.$76
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$60
- plus $52 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,49377%
- Food & beverage$3,03422%
- Entertainment$761%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 47 | $11,941 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $1,160 |
| Stryker | 2 | $170 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $143 |
| Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp. | 1 | $76 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $26 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Persona$3,160
- Avenir$2,936
- Arcos$2,595
- DJO SURGICAL$1,160
- mymobility Platform$144
- SPINEJACK$131
How this compares
$13,603 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 197 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kansas.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 15 | $127 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Dodge City
- Kashif AshfaqDodge City$13K
- David AndersonKansas City$490K
- Brandon CarlsonKansas City$299K
- Jacob DeisterTopeka$185K
- Harold EllsworthLeawood$154K
- Tyler BronWichita$107K
- William ReedLenexa$106K
- Alexander BaileyOverland Park$99K
- Brent WiseKansas City$97K
- Joshua LockerLeawood$91K
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.