RxDoctor Payments Data

Kamran Shahid, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Lake Charles, LANPI 1336370642

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $123,550 of the $154,780 with a category attached, or 79.8%. Merck accounts for 97.7% of it on its own, with 35 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among hematology & oncology clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$154,780in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 291 payments — averaging $531.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$151K
  • Novartis$508
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$451
  • Amgen$437
  • AstraZeneca$269
  • Johnson & Johnson$232
  • plus $2K from 30 others
$70,482in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $5034.43 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.

  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$37K
  • Helsinn Healthcare SA$33K

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$123,55080%
  • Travel & lodging$24,46716%
  • Food & beverage$6,5364%
  • Education$2280%

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.

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

$154,780 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 183 hematology & oncology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$74,824
Medicare patients
222
Services billed
707

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
Lenalidomide26$328,057
XtandiEnzalutamide17$175,543
Abiraterone Acetate36$84,428
Bicalutamide48$1,683
Tamoxifen Citrate76$1,608
Letrozole25$534
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen13$223
Fluorouracil11$197
Prednisone26$150
Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride18$83

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
Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi$105$175,54317 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 95th percentile of 183 hematology & oncology providers in Louisiana.

Other hematology & oncology in Lake Charles

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