Omar Shams, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Midlothian, VANPI 1093906133
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,429 of the $12,080 with a category attached, or 69.8%. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 36.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,917 and has fallen 58.0% since, to $1,646 in 2025.
Across 280 payments — averaging $43.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$700
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$655
- Abbott$537
- Novartis$373
- plus $4K from 36 others
Across 60 payments — averaging $8479.03 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.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$509K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00017%
- Travel & lodging$1,63214%
- Food & beverage$8,42970%
- Education$200%
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.
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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$2,103
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,353
- Carto 3 System$683
- Micra$409
- Amplia MRI$259
- AVEIR$178
- ENSITE PRECISION$176
- VenaSeal$129
- Carto Smarttouch$123
- Repatha$122
- GlideLight$119
- Watchman$118
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$110
- Advisa$103
How this compares
$12,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 548 cardiovascular disease providers in Virginia.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 418 | $514,431 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 67 | $114,514 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 72 | $100,440 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 11 | $19,053 |
| Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl | 50 | $11,582 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 122 | $6,328 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 295 | $5,480 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (La)Diltiazem Hcl | 34 | $2,601 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 77 | $2,348 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 109 | $2,071 |
| Matzim LaDiltiazem Hcl | 14 | $1,971 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 56 | $1,384 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 89 | $1,248 |
| Losartan Potassium | 97 | $1,168 |
| Carvedilol | 115 | $1,127 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $260 | $514,431418 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $373 | $114,51467 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $196 | $100,44072 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $88 | $19,05311 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 85th percentile of 548 cardiovascular disease providers in Virginia.
Other cardiovascular disease in Midlothian
- Ryan MelchiorMidlothian$54K
- Calvin NewtonMidlothian$19K
- George VetrovecRichmond$2.3M
- Hamid TaheriManassas$501K
- Cyrus HadadiNorfolk$360K
- Michael AyersCharlottesville$305K
- David LimCharlottesville$264K
- Alexander TruesdellFalls Church$167K
- Antonio AbbateCharlottesville$161K
- Christopher OconnorFalls Church$161K
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.