Has Shafagh Monazzam, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,395 in general payments to Shafagh Monazzam, MD across 59 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 Shafagh Monazzam, 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 Shafagh Monazzam, 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.

Shafagh Monazzam, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · South Gate, CANPI 1619276573

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,395in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $142.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$7K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Roche Diagnostics Corporation$100
Medacta USA, Inc.$32

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$5,02160%
Food & beverage$3,37340%

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
Stryker	47	$6,724
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	10	$1,540
Roche Diagnostics Corporation	1	$100
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$32

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

$8,395 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 136 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$107,399

Medicare patients

160

Services billed

1,265

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
Diclofenac Sodium	164	$5,108
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	98	$1,158
Meloxicam	412	$991
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	69	$444
Gabapentin	88	$320
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	18	$193
Methylprednisolone	26	$151
Ibuprofen	11	$89
Tramadol Hcl	27	$84

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in South Gate

William MaloneyStanford$11.1M
James CaillouetteNewport Beach$4.8M
William LongLos Angeles$2.8M
John DearbornMenlo Park$2.5M
James HuddlestonStanford$2.2M
William Bugbeela Jolla$2.2M
Alexander SahFremont$1.8M
John DianaNapa$1.1M
Louis KwongTorrance$958K
Derek AmanatullahStanford$935K

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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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