James Shepherd, MD
Surgery · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1235335530
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (52.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.9% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,621 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $326 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $118.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- AbbVie$273
- Davol Inc.$197
- Johnson & Johnson$188
- Baxter Healthcare$172
- Kerecis Limited$140
- plus $702 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,97319%
- Food & beverage$2,91128%
- Education$5,50053%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 30 | $8,720 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $273 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $197 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $188 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $172 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $140 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 2 | $103 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $90 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $62 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $30 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$10,392 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 290 surgery providers in Oklahoma.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 99 | $1,016 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 85 | $422 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 25 | $132 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Oklahoma City
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- Alexander RainesOklahoma City$36K
- Christopher HenryOklahoma City$16K
- Brian HerrittOklahoma City$12K
- Carson AgeeOklahoma City$11K
- Marcia MooreOklahoma City$11K
- Joseph BuendiaOklahoma City$11K
- Laura FischerOklahoma City$11K
- Peter CollisterOklahoma City$10K
- Dayne JensenOklahoma City$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.