Raj Shah
Geriatric Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1053440503
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Lundbeck LLC at 50.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,019, more than ten times the $68 reported in 2019.
Across 11 payments — averaging $157.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lundbeck LLC$880
- Boston Scientific$216
- Cvrx, Inc.$171
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$152
- Stryker$120
- Novo Nordisk$109
- plus $87 from 3 others
Across 226 payments — averaging $8143.53 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$967K
- Genentech, Inc.$832K
- Merck$37K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$88051%
- Food & beverage$85549%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $880 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $216 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Stryker | 1 | $120 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $109 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 2 | $19 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 147 geriatric medicine providers in Illinois.
Other geriatric medicine in Chicago
- Carlos Mella-PicelChicago$9K
- Adeela CheemaChicago$5K
- Snigdha KolaChicago$3K
- Annie JohnChicago$2K
- Abbas RizviChicago$1K
- Theresa RoweChicago$1K
- Varisha SinghChicago$709
- Gretel Ruiz JorgeChicago$643
- Martin GorbienChicago$640
- Wayne WilliamsonChicago$475
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.