RxDoctor Payments Data

Mohamed Shala, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Memphis, TNNPI 1841277308

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,360in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 315 payments — averaging $17.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$892
  • Novartis$810
  • Medtronic$662
  • Philips North America LLC$564
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$474
  • Johnson & Johnson$295
  • plus $2K from 28 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,33099%
  • Education$301%

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

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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

$5,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 207 interventional cardiology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,407,802
Medicare patients
2,200
Services billed
22,709

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
EliquisApixaban1,070$915,527
XareltoRivaroxaban241$235,629
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan111$135,337
JardianceEmpagliflozin151$133,986
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab114$73,686
BrilintaTicagrelor26$21,292
OzempicSemaglutide20$18,235
MounjaroTirzepatide11$15,141
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol18$14,230
Metoprolol Succinate1,298$14,228
Rosuvastatin Calcium1,054$13,821
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide349$13,543
Praluent PenAlirocumab20$13,415
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil26$10,920
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl24$10,149

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
PfizerEliquis$892$915,5271,070 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$295$235,629241 claims
NovartisEntresto$810$135,337111 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15$133,986151 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$19$18,23520 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi$22$10,92026 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Bystolic$42$2,21412 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 30th percentile of 207 interventional cardiology providers in Tennessee.

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