Scott Sholem
Trauma Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1114188950
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $8,020 of the $9,775 with a category attached, or 82.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.0% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,118 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $165 in 2025.
Across 26 payments — averaging $375.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Johnson & Johnson$114
- Stryker$75
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$62
- CSL Behring$52
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$36
- plus $47 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8148%
- Food & beverage$8799%
- Education$8,02082%
- Other$621%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 14 | $9,389 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $114 |
| Stryker | 1 | $75 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $62 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $52 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $36 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,082
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
How this compares
$9,775 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 31 trauma surgery providers in Arizona.
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 trauma surgery in Phoenix
- Kevin FosterPhoenix$93K
- Gina GoldenPhoenix$66K
- Ara FeinsteinPhoenix$19K
- Natasha KericPhoenix$17K
- Eric PetersenPhoenix$12K
- Sydney VailPhoenix$12K
- Jordan WeinbergPhoenix$7K
- Nirav PatelPhoenix$2K
- Christopher MellonPhoenix$1K
- Michael EderPhoenix$354
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.