RxDoctor Payments Data

Shalin Shakya, MD

Hospitalist · Cypress, TXNPI 1548573173

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,894in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $41.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
  • AstraZeneca$686
  • Johnson & Johnson$317
  • La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$212
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$136
  • BETA Bionics, Inc.$132
  • plus $355 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,894100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$2,894 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,284 hospitalist providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,484
Medicare patients
273
Services billed
635

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban13$8,750
Pantoprazole Sodium22$373
Cefdinir36$293
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate12$164
Metoprolol Succinate25$163
Amiodarone Hcl11$108
Methylprednisolone12$89
Atorvastatin Calcium19$86
Lisinopril14$62
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate12$58
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen13$58
Tamsulosin Hcl11$42
Furosemide17$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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