Has Shady Nakhla, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $47,274 in general payments to Shady Nakhla, MD across 105 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 Shady Nakhla, 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 Shady Nakhla, 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.

Shady Nakhla, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1457615213

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 36.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $19,004 and has fallen 57.7% since, to $8,037 in 2025.

$47,274in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $450.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$17K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$16K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$9K
Boston Scientific$5K
Abbott$1K
Philips North America LLC$120
plus $113 from 2 others

$333,131in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $27,761 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Philips North America LLC$333K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$25,40054%
Speaking & faculty fees$9,50720%
Travel & lodging$6,91015%
Food & beverage$5,45712%

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(2 entities)	43	$17,082
Biosense Webster, Inc.	19	$15,589
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	5	$8,663
Boston Scientific	27	$4,635
Abbott	8	$1,072
Philips North America LLC	1	$120
Masimo Corporation	1	$89
Atricure, Inc.	1	$24

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

$47,274 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 159 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$157,919

Medicare patients

695

Services billed

1,599

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
EliquisApixaban	232	$308,098
XareltoRivaroxaban	73	$85,277
Dofetilide	118	$31,111
Flecainide Acetate	97	$5,914
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol	11	$5,682
Metoprolol Succinate	165	$2,470
Amiodarone Hcl	66	$1,188
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	29	$1,040
Propafenone Hcl	12	$676
SotalolSotalol Hcl	17	$649
Losartan Potassium	13	$217
Metoprolol Tartrate	12	$112
JantovenWarfarin Sodium	12	$84
Furosemide	26	$73

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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