RxDoctor Payments Data

Indravadan Shah, MD

Rheumatology · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1023100914

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,036in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 154 payments — averaging $19.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$843
  • Johnson & Johnson$429
  • Novartis$330
  • Amgen$303
  • UCB, Inc.$255
  • GSK$203
  • plus $673 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,92096%
  • Education$1154%

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

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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.

How this compares

$3,036 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 127 rheumatology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$31,177
Medicare patients
105
Services billed
268

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept71$518,248
EnbrelEtanercept12$152,679
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab16$144,033
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab12$80,227
BenlystaBelimumab12$67,426
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate208$11,607
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium280$8,560
Prednisone498$6,433
Leflunomide56$5,459
Pilocarpine Hcl15$2,760
Allopurinol133$1,806
Sulfasalazine11$734
Ibandronate Sodium14$658
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl31$539
Folic Acid48$401

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AmgenEnbrel$303$152,67912 claims
GSKBenlysta$203$67,42612 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 40th percentile of 127 rheumatology providers in Tennessee.

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