Shaina Eckhouse, MD
Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1164683025
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $45,583 of the $67,223 with a category attached, or 67.8%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 62.6% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in MO 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 143 payments — averaging $470.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$42K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$10K
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Medtronic$3K
- Novo Nordisk$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- plus $2K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$45,58368%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,4852%
- Travel & lodging$9,77615%
- Food & beverage$5,8799%
- Education$4,5007%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 27 | $42,114 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 21 | $9,754 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 36 | $7,794 |
| Medtronic | 26 | $2,638 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $2,156 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $1,235 |
| Covidien LP | 12 | $652 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $225 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $129 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $105 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $96 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Stryker | 1 | $28 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $20 |
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$5,544
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$4,958
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$2,788
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$2,200
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$2,200
- Signia$1,650
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$1,485
- ProGrip$330
- STRATTICE$225
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$219
- SEAMGUARD$139
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$129
- ZEPBOUND$122
- LigaSure$119
- Endo GIA$112
- Overstitch$105
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$104
How this compares
$67,223 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 612 surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 57 | $1,066 |
| Sucralfate | 12 | $801 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 39 | $423 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Saint Louis
- James ScottSaint Louis$307K
- Omar GuerraSaint Louis$249K
- Mark DrakeSaint Louis$212K
- Adeel KhanSaint Louis$204K
- Michael AwadSaint Louis$176K
- Laurie PunchSaint Louis$141K
- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$134K
- Sekhar DharmarajanSaint Louis$110K
- Jason RheeSaint Louis$63K
- Christopher LawranceSaint Louis$36K
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.