Has James Shaw, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $44,853 in general payments to James Shaw, MD across 174 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 James Shaw, 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 James Shaw, 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.

James Shaw, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · The Woodlands, TXNPI 1952745796

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $27,007 of the $44,853 with a category attached, or 60.2%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 64.7% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $19,070 and has fallen 62.5% since, to $7,157 in 2025.

$44,853in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 174 payments — averaging $257.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$29K
Stryker$5K
Curvafix, Inc.$3K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Synthes GmbH$2K
Smith+Nephew$1K
plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$27,00760%
Speaking & faculty fees$4,2509%
Travel & lodging$2,4856%
Food & beverage$9,89622%
Education$1,2003%
Entertainment$150%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	27	$29,002
Stryker	65	$5,111
Curvafix, Inc.	2	$2,892
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	35	$2,174
Synthes GmbH	3	$1,988
Smith+Nephew	19	$1,275
Southern Edge Orthopaedics, Inc.	1	$1,200
Medinc Of Texas	6	$394
Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$146
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$120
Solventum Corporation	1	$118
Globus Medical	1	$78
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$68
Medtronic	1	$47
Paragon 28, Inc.	1	$43
Bioventus LLC	2	$39
Painteq LLC	1	$34
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$33
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	1	$25
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$17
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	1	$17
Amgen	1	$16
Argentum Medical	1	$15

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.

How this compares

$44,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 74 orthopaedic trauma providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$153,466

Medicare patients

151

Services billed

534

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	58	$628
Methocarbamol	12	$102
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	18	$100
Gabapentin	27	$72
Tramadol Hcl	21	$71

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic trauma in The Woodlands

Rabah QadirThe Woodlands$38K
Cory CollingeFort Worth$2.8M
John MunzHouston$1M
Kyle DicksonHouston$975K
Timothy AchorHouston$561K
Jonathan EastmanHouston$361K
Stephen WarnerHouston$357K
Edgar AraizaDallas$270K
Milton L RouttHouston$266K
Andrew ChooHouston$262K

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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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