Lale Kostakoglu Shields, MD
Nuclear Radiology · Charlottesville, VANPI 1154398642
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 76 payments — averaging $4679.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Blue Earth Diagnostics$211K
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$104K
- Pfizer$23K
- GE HealthCare$9K
- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$7K
- Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- plus $496 from 4 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $8740.79 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.
- Eli Lilly$58K
- Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc.$23K
- Genentech, Inc.$22K
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$10K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$476
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$37,86072%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,64322%
- Travel & lodging$1,9124%
- Food & beverage$8592%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 12 | $210,864 |
| F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG | 20 | $103,643 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $22,588 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $9,000 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $7,276 |
| Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $1,778 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 4 | $246 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $117 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| United Imaging Healthcare North America LLC | 1 | $65 |
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
Too few nuclear radiology providers in Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Other nuclear radiology in Charlottesville
- Jiefu ZhengCharlottesville$3K
- Prem BatchalaCharlottesville$1K
- James ZelenakRichmond$272
- Melvin FratkinRichmond$19
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.