Shanu Kothari, MD
Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1063418366
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (39.7%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 60.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $30,304 and has fallen 80.9% since, to $5,799 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in SC 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 336 payments — averaging $361.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$73K
- Johnson & Johnson$22K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$12K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- plus $4K from 14 others
Across 32 payments — averaging $2186.53 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Johnson & Johnson$70K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$45,26037%
- Speaking & faculty fees$48,27940%
- Travel & lodging$10,8159%
- Food & beverage$17,17414%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 192 | $73,280 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 28 | $21,971 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 35 | $12,455 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $5,986 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 22 | $2,781 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $1,374 |
| Covidien LP | 12 | $1,059 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 10 | $949 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $476 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $236 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $212 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $168 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $111 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Distalmotion US | 2 | $88 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Merck | 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.
- LigaSure$12,807
- N/A$11,020
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$9,509
- Signia$6,968
- LINX Reflux Management System$6,644
- Sonicision$3,695
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$2,575
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,177
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$2,060
- HARMONIC Product Family$2,060
- ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY Endoscopic Curved Intraluminal Stapler$872
- Product in Development$600
- Harmonic$515
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$424
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$368
- Endo GIA$327
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$327
- GORE ENFORM Biomaterial$290
- SpyGlass Discover$258
- STREAMCONNECT$240
How this compares
$121,527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
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.
Other surgery in Greenville
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
- William CobbGreenville$159K
- Jeremy WarrenGreenville$46K
- Nathan SmithGreenville$24K
- Wesley JonesGreenville$17K
- Michael LoveGreenville$16K
- Colin WebbGreenville$16K
- Samuel GrootGreenville$14K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
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.