Donna Shanks, DO
Family Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1033207196
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 9 payments — averaging $14.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shire North American Group Inc$40
- Amgen$39
- Genentech USA, Inc.$15
- Eisai Inc.$13
- AbbVie$12
- Lilly USA, LLC$11
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$130100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $40 |
| Amgen | 2 | $39 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$130 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 13 | $4,076 |
| Alprazolam | 32 | $1,053 |
| Baclofen | 20 | $540 |
| Gabapentin | 37 | $499 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 31 | $490 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 23 | $331 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 11 | $259 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 24 | $244 |
| Clonidine Hcl | 11 | $183 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 43 | $177 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $171 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 46 | $158 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 26 | $121 |
| Lisinopril | 20 | $98 |
| Furosemide | 14 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Houston
- Lisa HollowayHouston$30.1M
- Veronica FragosoHouston$24.5M
- Bonnie ColvilleHouston$19.6M
- Oscar de ValleHouston$12.8M
- van TranHouston$11M
- Joe PouzarHouston$10.7M
- Aalia Al-BarwaniHouston$6.8M
- Terence ChangHouston$3.3M
- Douglas DenhamSan Antonio$68.5M
- Vicki MillerPasadena$58.3M
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.