Question 1

Has Husam Shadid received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,769 in general payments to Husam Shadid across 87 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Husam Shadid did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Husam Shadid come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Abbott	24	$5,976
Stryker	14	$2,010
Medtronic	8	$1,933
Cook Medical LLC	3	$198
Amgen	3	$196
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$192
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$145
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$125
Shockwave Medical, Inc	2	$112
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$107
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$86
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	3	$82
Biosense Webster, Inc.	1	$73
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	3	$72
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$69
Teleflex LLC	3	$64
Abiomed	3	$56
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$49
Novartis	2	$47
Pfizer	2	$35
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	2	$33
Novo Nordisk	1	$28
AstraZeneca	1	$22
BD	1	$22
Johnson & Johnson	1	$21
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$17

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