Has Bilal Shafi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $232,827 in general payments to Bilal Shafi, MD across 382 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 Bilal Shafi, 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 Bilal Shafi, 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.

Bilal Shafi, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Santa Cruz, CANPI 1306923123

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $145,935 of the $232,827 with a category attached, or 62.7%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 45.9% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$232,827in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 382 payments — averaging $609.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$107K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$83K
Intuitive Surgical$35K
Abbott$3K
Artivion, Inc.$2K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
plus $906 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$145,93563%
Speaking & faculty fees$19,7508%
Travel & lodging$26,99712%
Food & beverage$12,0895%
Education$28,05612%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	202	$106,774
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	67	$83,500
Intuitive Surgical	28	$34,720
Abbott	29	$3,150
Artivion, Inc.	6	$2,059
Atricure, Inc.	25	$1,719
Clearflow Inc.	1	$150
Angiodynamics, Inc.	4	$139
Elutia, Inc.	1	$103
Philips North America LLC	1	$92
Johnson & Johnson	4	$89
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$68
Hemosonics LLC	3	$64
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$48
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$43
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$27
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$26
Medtronic	1	$25
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$20
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$11

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 in Development$76,887
Da Vinci Surgical System$34,176
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$28,885
TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$3,967
Mitra Clip system$1,847
EVOQUE$1,039
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$964
GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$956
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$862
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$746
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$667
TRICLIP$541
Cardiac non-SynerGraft$348
PROCEL Cast Liner$321
THRUPORT SYSTEMS INTRACLUDE INTRA-AORTIC OCCLUSION DEVICE$295
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$151
PleuraFlow$150
KONECT RESILIA$141
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$140
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX, MODELS$122

How this compares

$232,827 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$584,901

Medicare patients

389

Services billed

1,054

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Santa Cruz

Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K
Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$577K
Ali KhoynezhadLong Beach$476K

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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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