Has Ryan Shields, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,202 in general payments to Ryan Shields, MD across 140 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ryan Shields, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ryan Shields, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ryan Shields, MD

Retina Specialist · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1255726618

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,202in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $72.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Genentech USA, Inc.$3K
Alcon$2K
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$1K
Coherus Oncology, Inc.$468
Novartis$409
Harrow Eye, LLC$339
plus $3K from 24 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,11521%
Travel & lodging$8198%
Food & beverage$7,26871%

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
Genentech USA, Inc.	30	$3,267
Alcon	9	$1,552
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	35	$1,406
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	7	$468
Novartis	11	$409
Harrow Eye, LLC	3	$339
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	2	$247
Amgen	2	$239
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	2	$206
Dutch Ophthalmic, USA	2	$153
Alimera Sciences, Inc.	3	$146
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.	1	$139
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$135
NEW World Medical,inc.	1	$127
Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited	1	$125
Regeneron	2	$123
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	1	$121
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$120
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$112
Omeros Corporation	1	$109
Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$109
AbbVie(2 entities)	3	$106
Carl Zeiss Meditec Cataract Technology Inc.	2	$91
Stryker	1	$81
Eyepoint US, Inc.	3	$70
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$60
Viiv Healthcare Company	3	$59
Sandoz	1	$33
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$29
Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20

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

$10,202 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$3,606,132

Medicare patients

990

Services billed

37,521

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
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	132	$8,925
Prednisolone Acetate	116	$5,963
Bromfenac Sodium	25	$4,822
Difluprednate	52	$4,346
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	45	$736
Ketorolac Tromethamine	19	$444
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	19	$224
Timolol Maleate	21	$214
Dorzolamide Hcl	12	$178
Latanoprost	14	$167
Polymyxin B Sul-TrimethoprimPolymyxin B Sulf/Trimethoprim	16	$115
Brimonidine Tartrate	13	$113

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other retina specialist in Ft Lauderdale

Eduardo UchiyamaFt Lauderdale$4.1M
Mario del CidFt Lauderdale$44K
Barry TaneyFt Lauderdale$6K
Darin GoldmanFt Lauderdale$6K
Shailesh GuptaDeerfield Beach$18.8M
Vrinda HershbergerMelbourne$8.2M
Sunil GuptaPensacola$8.1M
Stuart BurgessPlantation$4.6M
Drew BawcombeDeerfield Beach$2M
Dana DeupreeSpring Hill$1.5M

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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.

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