Bhavesh Shah
Foot & Ankle Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1538240031
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 76 payments — averaging $54.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Stryker$486
- Smith+Nephew$373
- Organogenesis Inc.$161
- Nevro Corp.$99
- plus $898 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50612%
- Travel & lodging$98724%
- Food & beverage$2,68564%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $1,128 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $1,033 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 10 | $486 |
| Smith+Nephew | 21 | $373 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $161 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $99 |
| CPM Medical Consultants, LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Mission Medical Distribution, LLC | 3 | $91 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $55 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $45 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $45 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Amgen | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Product Portfolio$1,128
- BIO4$141
- PuraPly$118
- INCEPTIV$117
- STAR$108
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$108
How this compares
$4,179 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
Other foot & ankle surgery in San Antonio
- Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
- Chad HowzeSan Antonio$2.4M
- Ian BarronSan Antonio$162K
- Walter StrashSan Antonio$86K
- Thomas ZgonisSan Antonio$79K
- Joseph CaporussoMcAllen$6M
- Mark DaltonAustin$4.1M
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.