Shankar Das, MD
Sports Medicine · Albany, NYNPI 1386732139
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 173 payments — averaging $168.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$14K
- Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc.$10K
- Arcuro Medical Inc$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Embody, Inc.$432
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$382
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$15,54553%
- Food & beverage$9,28132%
- Education$4,36715%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 101 | $14,349 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 30 | $9,910 |
| Arcuro Medical Inc | 3 | $1,392 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 17 | $1,078 |
| Embody, Inc. | 2 | $432 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 2 | $382 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $319 |
| Abanza Inc. | 1 | $254 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $191 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $186 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $140 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $134 |
| Stryker | 2 | $114 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Axogen | 1 | $86 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $44 |
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.
- SUPERBALL$1,340
- WasherCap Fixation System 10mm$254
- Kischner wire$254
- EQUINOXE$191
- Persona$154
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$137
- HemiCAP Shoulder$134
- Regeneten$132
- Samples Biologics$123
- TAPESTRY$114
- TACTOSET$112
- LINVATEC HIP PRESERVATION SYSTEM$109
How this compares
$29,193 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 403 sports medicine providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 18 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Albany
- Kyle FlikAlbany$40K
- Steven LeeNyc$3.3M
- Riley WilliamsNew York$3.1M
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$3.1M
- James PaciWoodbury$2.2M
- Ilya VoloshinRochester$965K
- Theodore BlaineNew York$845K
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Stephen NicholasNyc$637K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$609K
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.