Has Amber Shada, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,838 in general payments to Amber Shada, MD across 38 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 Amber Shada, 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 Amber Shada, 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.

Amber Shada, MD

Surgery · Madison, WINPI 1568666410

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $11,251 of the $17,838 with a category attached, or 63.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.1% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $15,636 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $111 in 2025.

$17,838in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $469.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$14K
Medtronic$2K
Boston Scientific$1K
Cook Medical LLC$111
Johnson & Johnson$58

$17,550in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $1350.03 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$17K
BD$990

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$2,00011%
Grants$1,0006%
Travel & lodging$2,35613%
Food & beverage$1,2307%
Education$11,25163%

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	27	$14,286
Medtronic	1	$2,000
Boston Scientific	7	$1,382
Cook Medical LLC	2	$111
Johnson & Johnson	1	$58

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

$17,838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 499 surgery providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$73,197

Medicare patients

156

Services billed

315

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	16	$332
Omeprazole	28	$327
Lidocaine Hcl ViscousLidocaine Hcl	31	$268
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	14	$208
Nystatin	17	$154
Famotidine	13	$153
Sucralfate	15	$141
Oxycodone Hcl	23	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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