RxDoctor Payments Data

Marilyn Shook, PA

Surgical · Houston, TXNPI 1750582847

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Heron Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 85.4% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgical clinicians in TX 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.

$46,376in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 207 payments — averaging $224.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$40K
  • Stryker$5K
  • Globus Medical$390
  • Amgen$291
  • Radius Health, Inc.$286
  • Medinc Of Texas$169
  • plus $289 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8,60119%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$22,66349%
  • Travel & lodging$9,18520%
  • Food & beverage$5,92813%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.119$39,624
Stryker41$5,327
Globus Medical3$390
Amgen(2 entities)18$291
Radius Health, Inc.14$286
Medinc Of Texas3$169
Smith+Nephew1$129
Bioventus LLC3$60
Vertex2$43
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.1$30
Pfizer1$17
ERMI LLC1$10

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

$46,376 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 804 surgical providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,286
Medicare patients
60
Services billed
82

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
Celecoxib14$241
Meloxicam64$183
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine16$127
Tramadol Hcl28$70

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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