Shafi Mohamed, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1346434743
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $11,000 of the $15,624 with a category attached, or 70.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,731, more than ten times the $423 reported in 2019.
Across 58 payments — averaging $269.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Abiomed$545
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$505
- Medtronic$294
- Endologix LLC$213
- Abbott$148
- plus $746 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1371%
- Travel & lodging$1,88612%
- Food & beverage$2,60217%
- Education$11,00070%
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 | 21 | $13,174 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $545 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $505 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $294 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $213 |
| Abbott | 2 | $148 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Stryker | 1 | $88 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $86 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $84 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $67 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $28 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $14 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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$7,423
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- AlphaVac$325
- ENDURANT IIS$221
- Impella$153
- AQUADEX SMARTFLOW CONSOLE$137
- AFX$131
- Ovation$131
- Mitra Clip system$130
- Veltassa$109
How this compares
$15,624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 11 | $10,233 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 50 | $279 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 22 | $107 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $71 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $35 |
| Furosemide | 11 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Baton Rouge
- Emily CassidyBaton Rouge$1.3M
- Nicholas LeblancBaton Rouge$70K
- Imtiaz KhanBaton Rouge$42K
- Azeem KhanBaton Rouge$24K
- William BoedefeldBaton Rouge$13K
- Jared MurdockBaton Rouge$10K
- Terry StellyBaton Rouge$8K
- Thomas MarsdenBaton Rouge$2K
- Carl RigbyBaton Rouge$2K
- Walter Bringaze IiiBaton Rouge$2K
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.