Robert Shields, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Newport, KYNPI 1740668839
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $50.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Legacy Ortho LLC$1K
- Stryker$828
- Smith+Nephew$268
- Paragon 28, Inc.$160
- Amgen$133
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$127
- plus $772 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,43167%
- Education$1,20033%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 3 | $1,343 |
| Stryker | 15 | $828 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $268 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| Amgen | 2 | $133 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $127 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $79 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $58 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $45 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $37 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $35 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $31 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$3,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 141 foot & ankle surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 79 | $835 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 20 | $404 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 11 | $396 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 37 | $268 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 29 | $247 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 38 | $202 |
| Cephalexin | 46 | $197 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 14 | $116 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 17 | $97 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $81 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 14 | $63 |
| Methylprednisolone | 21 | $53 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 14 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Newport
- Darren di IulioNewport$7K
- William Adams IiPaducah$485K
- Sofie PinneyCynthiana$130K
- Carl KihmLouisville$89K
- Bradford FineLexington$82K
- Nicholas LacoLouisville$60K
- Jay LechnerLouisville$29K
- Russell BakerCarrollton$27K
- William McGloneLouisville$26K
- Timothy FordLouisville$26K
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.