Has Gordon Shields, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,507 in general payments to Gordon Shields, MD across 100 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 Gordon Shields, 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 Gordon Shields, 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.

Gordon Shields, MD

Otolaryngology · Tuscaloosa, ALNPI 1922059997

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.7% of the total across 100 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. at 24.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,067, 9.2 times the $116 reported in 2019.

$2,507in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $25.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$609
GSK$605
Sanofi$501
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$173
Aerin Medical Inc.$128
Intersect ENT, Inc.$108
plus $384 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,37595%
Education$1325%

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
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	21	$609
GSK	25	$605
Sanofi	21	$501
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	3	$173
Aerin Medical Inc.	5	$128
Intersect ENT, Inc.	4	$108
Amgen	2	$61
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	4	$60
Neurent Medical Limited	2	$51
Optinose US, Inc.	3	$48
Stryker	3	$47
Kaleo, Inc.	2	$38
Merck	1	$18
Smith+Nephew	1	$18
Johnson & Johnson	1	$17
Cochlear Americas	1	$13
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$13

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.

Inspire$114

How this compares

$2,507 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 155 otolaryngology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$178,839

Medicare patients

285

Services billed

1,532

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
Azelastine Hcl	152	$3,794
Fluticasone Propionate	207	$3,225
Ipratropium Bromide	50	$2,064
Ofloxacin	48	$1,412
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	70	$754
Montelukast Sodium	52	$593
Mometasone Furoate	26	$448
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	41	$341
Omeprazole	19	$254
Famotidine	39	$242
Pantoprazole Sodium	21	$226
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride	41	$196
Mupirocin	28	$165
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	20	$71
Prednisone	30	$66

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Tuscaloosa

Craig BenoitTuscaloosa$2K
John DavisHoover$251K
William McFeelyHuntsville$70K
Michael SillersBirmingham$53K
Justin TurnerBirmingham$34K
Bradford WoodworthBirmingham$27K
Patrick OwensBirmingham$26K
Kirk WithrowBirmingham$22K
Do-Yeon ChoBirmingham$19K
William BlytheOpelika$19K

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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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