Amit Sharma, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Erie, PANPI 1629210836
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,507 and has fallen 87.7% since, to $309 in 2025.
Across 55 payments — averaging $67.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- AbbVie$285
- TELA Bio, Inc.$178
- Abbott$173
- Merck$127
- Novartis$112
- plus $468 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,15331%
- Food & beverage$1,55942%
- Education$1,00027%
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 | 13 | $2,368 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $285 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 11 | $178 |
| Abbott | 4 | $173 |
| Merck | 2 | $127 |
| Novartis | 4 | $112 |
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $70 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $29 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 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$1,954
- DALVANCE$120
- ENTEREG$108
- UBRELVY$100
How this compares
$3,712 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 108 colon & rectal surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 39 | $429 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 25 | $73 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 12 | $64 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Erie
- Jennifer McQuadeErie$3K
- Brian BansidharErie$2K
- Bogdan ProtyniakWilkes-Barre$429K
- John MarksWynnewood$155K
- Joshua BleierPhiladelphia$86K
- Richard FortunatoPittsburgh$80K
- Najjia MahmoudPhiladelphia$63K
- James McCormickMonroeville$55K
- Juan PoggioPhiladelphia$49K
- Christopher BuzasDanville$25K
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.