Ashish Shah, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1972832467
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (33.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.1%.
Across 148 payments — averaging $191.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC$5K
- AbbVie$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- International Life Sciences$3K
- Stryker$2K
- plus $8K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,38612%
- Consulting fees$7,25026%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,80010%
- Travel & lodging$5,40119%
- Food & beverage$9,55834%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 9 | $4,846 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $4,812 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $3,136 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $3,000 |
| International Life Sciences | 2 | $2,916 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 24 | $2,056 |
| Bioventus LLC | 18 | $1,495 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $1,120 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $761 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 3 | $722 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 2 | $595 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $533 |
| Nutech Spine, Inc. | 3 | $305 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 6 | $278 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $206 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $128 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $125 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $103 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $100 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $98 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $84 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $58 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Metric Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Axogen | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Venclexta$4,812
- Medical Implant$4,475
- Durolane$1,140
- MOTOBAND$879
- Thermocool SF$761
- Arsenal Sinus Support Plate$595
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$558
- DynaNail Mini$522
- ANCHORAGE$280
- INFINITY$277
- Stravix$272
- SiFix$242
- CITREFIX$157
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$142
- Q-FIX$142
- Grappler$139
- GRAFIX PL$138
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$137
- Grafix$134
- DynaNail$131
How this compares
$28,395 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 40 foot and ankle surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 24 | $220 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $86 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Birmingham
- Norman WaldropBirmingham$3.6M
- Swapnil SinghBirmingham$14K
- Adam LukasiewiczBirmingham$10K
- Mary GilmerBirmingham$8K
- Danalynn GuasteferroBirmingham$5K
- Kenneth UngerBirmingham$4K
- Francisco CaycedoBirmingham$3K
- Ronald AgeeBirmingham$2K
- Justin DaigreDecatur$372K
- John KirchnerHoover$84K
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.