Has Amar Shah, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,014 in general payments to Amar Shah, MD across 16 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 Amar Shah, 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 Amar Shah, 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.

Amar Shah, MD

Hospitalist · Rancho Mirage, CANPI 1497313639

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,014in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $250.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$2K
Baxter Healthcare$2K
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$214
Vertex$86
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$57
AbbVie$29

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,54038%
Travel & lodging$2,08852%
Food & beverage$38610%

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	7	$2,088
Baxter Healthcare	1	$1,540
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$214
Vertex	1	$86
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$57
AbbVie	1	$29

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.

How this compares

$4,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,469 hospitalist providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$115,250

Medicare patients

421

Services billed

916

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
EliquisApixaban	11	$6,716
Daptomycin	11	$5,438
Pantoprazole Sodium	18	$131
Atorvastatin Calcium	22	$119
Prednisone	18	$100
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	14	$87
Amlodipine Besylate	25	$81
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	14	$78
Levofloxacin	13	$67
Carvedilol	16	$60
Doxycycline Hyclate	14	$51
Furosemide	11	$26
Lisinopril	11	$22

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hospitalist in Rancho Mirage

Francisco CordovaRancho Mirage$11K
John BeckesNational City$15.5M
Samuel PenzinerLos Angeles$2.5M
Michael Abdel-MalekDublin$2M
Billy HourMission Hills$1.9M
Jennifer SchneiderSanta Rosa$1.2M
Alpesh AminOrange$929K
Soham ShahBakersfield$844K
Deanna CheungLong Beach$732K
Dennis TsangHuntington Park$672K

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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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