Inam Shaikh, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Danbury, CTNPI 1932332954
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $2,500 of the $3,276 with a category attached, or 76.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,611 and has fallen 89.2% since, to $283 in 2025.
Across 26 payments — averaging $126.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- KCI USA, Inc.$57
- Medtronic$50
- Smith+Nephew$46
- Olympus America Inc.$46
- Boston Scientific$41
- plus $210 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$77624%
- Education$2,50076%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $2,826 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $50 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $46 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $41 |
| BD | 1 | $31 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $28 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $20 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$241
How this compares
$3,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 30 surgical critical care providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 36 | $337 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 30 | $125 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 13 | $60 |
| Fluconazole | 12 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in Danbury
- Heath WaldenDanbury$7K
- Jeffrey NicastroDanbury$206
- Charles WalshDanbury$15
- Philip CorvoWaterbury$105K
- David ShapiroHartford$31K
- Eric TsungBridgeport$20K
- William SymonsStamford$17K
- Noubar KevorkianNew Britain$16K
- Shannon SmallNew London$12K
- Melanie SionNew Haven$9K
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.