Robert Shires
Family Medicine · Des Moines, IANPI 1780643163
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 209 payments — averaging $13.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$454
- Novo Nordisk$408
- Boehringer Ingelheim$308
- Johnson & Johnson$258
- Lilly USA, LLC$221
- Pfizer$220
- plus $935 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,77899%
- Education$271%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 48 | $454 |
| Novo Nordisk | 25 | $408 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 20 | $308 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $258 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $221 |
| Pfizer | 24 | $220 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $200 |
| GSK | 11 | $167 |
| Amgen | 11 | $162 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $81 |
| Novartis | 4 | $63 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $45 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Merck | 2 | $30 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,357 family medicine providers in Iowa.
Other family medicine in Des Moines
- Thomas RossDes Moines$170K
- Yogesh ShahDes Moines$159K
- Dylan LoweDes Moines$105K
- Lisa KlockDes Moines$9K
- Kristin GisselmanDes Moines$8K
- Nicholas GoetschWaterloo$4.1M
- James PoockWaterloo$1.5M
- Jennifer KayCouncil Bluffs$613K
- Nicholas BechtoldSioux City$584K
- Kirk PetersonHuxley$576K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.