Jeffrey Shih, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Worcester, MANPI 1487832242
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $568 of the $911 with a category attached, or 62.4%. Abbott accounts for 84.2% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in MA, where the typical reported total is $954.
Across 9 payments — averaging $101.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$768
- Johnson & Johnson$123
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$21
Across 17 payments — averaging $2861.49 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$49K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$56862%
- Food & beverage$34338%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 7 | $768 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $123 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- HeartMate II LVAS$560
- NA$123
How this compares
$911 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 20 | $648,822 |
| VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine | 16 | $392,843 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 275 | $251,529 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 136 | $176,308 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 93 | $105,694 |
| EliquisApixaban | 90 | $102,272 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 31 | $18,774 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 12 | $18,677 |
| CorlanorIvabradine Hcl | 14 | $12,424 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 300 | $6,224 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 96 | $3,410 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 146 | $2,540 |
| Eplerenone | 47 | $2,173 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 40 | $2,074 |
| Ezetimibe | 37 | $1,585 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $123 | $18,67712 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 45th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.
Other cardiovascular disease in Worcester
- Bryon Gentile IiWorcester$235K
- Marc SabatineBoston$3.9M
- Elizabeth NabelBoston$2.2M
- Kenneth RosenfieldBoston$1.4M
- Kevin CroceChestnut Hill$1.4M
- James JanuzziBoston$1.1M
- Muthiah VaduganathanBoston$972K
- Joseph LoscalzoBoston$926K
- Sunil KapurBoston$823K
- Paul ZeiBoston$786K
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.