Ritesh Shah, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Morton Grove, ILNPI 1407019953
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,000,000 of the $2,250,589 with a category attached, or 88.9%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,025,708 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $14,212 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 258 payments — averaging $8723.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$2.2M
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$32K
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$12K
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$5K
- Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$5K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$3K
- plus $4K from 14 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $922.72 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.
- Zimmer Biomet$11K
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$5K
Across 1 payment — averaging $19,679 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$20K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,000,00089%
- Consulting fees$98,8624%
- Speaking & faculty fees$125,4966%
- Travel & lodging$18,3571%
- Food & beverage$7,8620%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 142 | $2,189,152 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 56 | $32,216 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 16 | $11,709 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 3 | $5,400 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 7 | $5,280 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $3,240 |
| Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $1,293 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $803 |
| Stryker | 7 | $520 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $400 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $234 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $89 |
| UOC USA Inc | 3 | $66 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $66 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, 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.
- ARIA$2,000,000
- POLARSTEM$86,395
- Journey II$69,792
- REDAPT$51,014
- Tandem$50,183
- Anthology$43,690
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$43,167
- R3$32,560
- MPO Medial Pivot Knee$31,231
- POLARCUP$29,146
- OR3O Dual Mobility$25,047
- R3 ACETABULAR$21,720
- Navio Surgical System$16,259
- Birmingham Hip Resurfacing$12,566
- NAVIO$12,075
- Journey II BCS$11,770
- VISIONAIRE Solutions$11,615
- Zilretta$11,572
- Oxinium Hips$11,400
- ACCORD$11,400
How this compares
$2,250,589 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 53 | $1,633 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 54 | $382 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $255 |
| Meloxicam | 89 | $236 |
| Cephalexin | 48 | $205 |
| Methylprednisolone | 37 | $198 |
| Amoxicillin | 87 | $126 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 25 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Morton Grove
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Rajeev GarapatiMorton Grove$319K
- Steven MardjetkoMorton Grove$288K
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
- Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
- David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M
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.