Mehul Shah
Internal Medicine · Saint Petersburg, FLNPI 1326129214
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 171 payments — averaging $29.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- GSK$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$701
- Lilly USA, LLC$519
- Boehringer Ingelheim$308
- Novo Nordisk$160
- plus $840 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,081100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 31 | $1,497 |
| GSK | 36 | $1,056 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 24 | $701 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 22 | $519 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $308 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $160 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $135 |
| Bayer | 5 | $114 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $110 |
| Novartis | 4 | $76 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $72 |
| Amgen | 3 | $56 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Indivior Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $19 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
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
$5,081 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 82 | $466 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 22 | $370 |
| Losartan Potassium | 39 | $234 |
| Lisinopril | 51 | $175 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 12 | $150 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $137 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 16 | $116 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 14 | $107 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 12 | $102 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 21 | $101 |
| Omeprazole | 22 | $94 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 16 | $82 |
| Metformin Hcl | 23 | $81 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 13 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Saint Petersburg
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- Juan Carlos RondonHollywood$66.8M
- Jaynier MoyaPembroke Pines$45.4M
- Mark KutnerMiami$35.7M
- Gilberto JimenezHialeah$35.6M
- Mira BaronWest Palm Beach$29.6M
- William SanchezHialeah$28.9M
- Nelia Sanchez-CrespoHollywood$28.8M
- Kwabena AyesuOrlando$27.6M
- Michael DeverWindermere$24M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.