Amar Shah, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1588001424
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $39,500 of the $51,264 with a category attached, or 77.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 90.8% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 150 payments — averaging $341.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$47K
- Stryker$1K
- Medtronic$806
- THD America, Inc.$598
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$276
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$140
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7501%
- Travel & lodging$4,5859%
- Food & beverage$6,41413%
- Education$39,50077%
- Gifts$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 65 | $46,569 |
| Stryker | 5 | $1,407 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $806 |
| THD America, Inc. | 5 | $598 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $276 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $140 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $131 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $113 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $110 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $66 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $65 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $61 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $49 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $46 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $24 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $22 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $22 |
| Medspira, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Organon | 1 | $16 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$43,072
- DA VINCI SP$2,500
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$1,227
- INTERSTIM$154
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$142
- VAC VERAFLO$129
- PREVENA$129
- GATTEX$123
- Signia$115
How this compares
$51,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 200 colon & rectal surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 37 | $2,486 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 32 | $177 |
| Gabapentin | 29 | $125 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $110 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $83 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $74 |
| Metronidazole | 34 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Austin
- Thiru LakshmanAustin$756K
- Andrew MillerAustin$41K
- Megan TurleyAustin$21K
- Ricardo SolisAustin$15K
- Diego Marines CopadoHouston$462K
- Bidhan DasSugar Land$350K
- Christopher de JesusSan Antonio$201K
- Farshid AraghizadehFort Worth$181K
- Jefferson HurleyIrving$163K
- Erik AskenasyHouston$142K
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.