Scott Shikora, MD
Surgery · Brookline, MANPI 1902917446
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $56,003 of the $62,048 with a category attached, or 90.3%. Medtronic accounts for 70.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $22,685 and has fallen 90.4% since, to $2,172 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in MA 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 127 payments — averaging $488.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$44K
- Covidien LP$18K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$743
- Acacia Pharma Inc$31
- Johnson & Johnson$31
- Reshape Lifesciences Inc.$28
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$56,00390%
- Travel & lodging$1,0742%
- Food & beverage$4,9718%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 93 | $43,544 |
| Covidien LP | 29 | $17,670 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $743 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $28 |
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.
- Sonicision$23,624
- Signia$12,023
- Product in Development$600
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$578
- Endo GIA$379
- LigaSure$156
- SEAMGUARD$143
- Signet$142
How this compares
$62,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 694 surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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.
Other surgery in Brookline
- Michael TarnoffBoston$1.4M
- Omar KudsiBoston$886K
- Philip CohenBrockton$280K
- Ankit MehtaBoston$278K
- Mark ConradMethuen$187K
- James HermenegildoFall River$178K
- Richard EngelmanSpringfield$167K
- Reuben ShinBurlington$158K
- Richard BirkettBeverly$93K
- Johannes KratzBoston$79K
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.