RxDoctor Payments Data

Neil Shah, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Tacoma, WANPI 1710270541

Payments from drug & device makers

$23,388in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $184.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Arthrex$9K
  • Summit Surgical Corp.$5K
  • CDC Medical LLC$2K
  • Acumed LLC$2K
  • Trimed, Inc.$1K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
  • plus $3K from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$7,12730%
  • Food & beverage$3,14613%
  • Education$13,11456%

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

$23,388 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 495 orthopaedic surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$179,826
Medicare patients
326
Services billed
1,142

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
Diclofenac Sodium47$1,267
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen156$1,260
Celecoxib17$461
Oxycodone Hcl38$212
Tramadol Hcl127$197
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen42$178
Methylprednisolone11$97
Meloxicam29$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Tacoma

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Where these figures come from

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