Has Shalini Saith, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $649 in general payments to Shalini Saith, MD across 13 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 Shalini Saith, 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 Shalini Saith, 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.

Shalini Saith, MD

Nephrology · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1154551521

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.3% of the total across 13 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 24.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $176 and has fallen 81.9% since, to $32 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for nephrology clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $1,407.

$649in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $49.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$157
Merck$148
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$139
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$119
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$37
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$32
plus $17 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$63898%
Education$112%

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

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
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$157
Merck	3	$148
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	3	$139
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$119
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$37
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$32
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$17

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

$649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 756 nephrology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$96,619

Medicare patients

198

Services billed

922

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate	16	$11,975
Valganciclovir Hcl	24	$6,241
Cinacalcet Hcl	14	$3,199
Tacrolimus	12	$1,269
Nifedipine ErNifedipine	29	$628
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	81	$527
Tamsulosin Hcl	25	$306
Prednisone	45	$226
Finasteride	11	$140
Losartan Potassium	36	$124
Pantoprazole Sodium	27	$115
Hydralazine Hcl	15	$105
Carvedilol	12	$83
Metoprolol Tartrate	21	$42

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other nephrology in Fort Myers

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John CopleyWeston$934K
Jorge LarranagaKissimmee$825K
Carlos BejarFort Lauderdale$530K
Wayne KotzkerFort Lauderdale$472K
Jason RothschildTemple Terrace$413K
Daniel PatelDaytona Beach$227K
Rafael Baez BonillaFort Lauderdale$175K
Gabriel ContrerasMiami$133K
Fouad ChebibJacksonville$122K

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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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