Has Sara Shashy received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,486 in general payments to Sara Shashy across 553 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 Sara Shashy 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 Sara Shashy 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.

Sara Shashy

Internal Medicine · Montgomery, ALNPI 1861480030

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.2% of the total across 553 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 41 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,394 and has fallen 97.6% since, to $57 in 2023. Among internal medicine clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$8,486in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 553 payments — averaging $15.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novartis$1K
Amgen$1K
AbbVie$959
Genentech USA, Inc.$712
Biogen$363
Johnson & Johnson$362
plus $3K from 35 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$2333%
Food & beverage$8,24497%
Education$90%

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
Novartis	93	$1,442
Amgen(2 entities)	73	$1,274
AbbVie(2 entities)	84	$959
Genentech USA, Inc.	41	$712
Biogen	24	$363
Johnson & Johnson	28	$362
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	21	$293
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	17	$291
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$259
MDD US Operations, LLC	18	$254
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	13	$247
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	13	$175
Bristol Myers Squibb	12	$172
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$155
Sanofi	7	$137
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	11	$135
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	8	$108
SK Life Science, Inc.	6	$105
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	5	$98
UCB, Inc.	5	$96
Eisai Inc.	6	$89
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$87
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$69
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$66
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	3	$58
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	3	$56
Pfizer	3	$43
AstraZeneca	2	$40
Lilly USA, LLC	3	$39
CSL Behring	2	$35
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	3	$34
Lundbeck LLC	2	$32
EMD Serono, Inc.	2	$32
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$30
Neurelis, Inc.	2	$30
Sobi, Inc	2	$29
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$24
Strongbridge US Inc.	1	$16
GE HealthCare	1	$16
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$11

How this compares

$8,486 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,533 internal medicine providers in Alabama.

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Other internal medicine in Montgomery

Joel McCloudMontgomery$27K
John JerniganMontgomery$25K
Norman TaylorMontgomery$16K
Ashok RunkanaMontgomery$14K
Ryan WeldonBirmingham$458K
Thomas McKelveyMobile$365K
Mary HonkanenMobile$302K
Robert LewisBirmingham$187K
Rosalind BowlesGadsden$168K
Sonja PettusJasper$117K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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