Shashank Sharma, MD
Surgery · Winchester, VANPI 1225560642
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (59.3%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 79.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $11,969 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $168 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 122 payments — averaging $142.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$14K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$565
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$329
- Terumo Medical Corporation$325
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$305
- plus $608 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$670%
- Travel & lodging$10,27059%
- Food & beverage$6,32637%
- Education$6664%
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 | 79 | $13,711 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 14 | $1,486 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $565 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $329 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $325 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $257 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $187 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$9,604
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,825
- Valiant Captivia$1,745
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,419
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$749
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$506
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$506
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$406
- Azur CX Detachable$382
- Navicross$250
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$187
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$164
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$152
- GLIDESHEATH SLENDER$118
- GlideWire$118
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$117
How this compares
$17,328 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 675 surgery providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 13 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Winchester
- Charles HyreWinchester$27K
- Raymond MakhoulRichmond$1.5M
- Zobair YounossiFalls Church$1.2M
- Yassar YoussefNorfolk$1M
- David WeintrittAlexandria$555K
- Hazem ElarinyVienna$368K
- George GillianLorton$214K
- Joseph GreeneReston$187K
- Lamiere DowningChristiansburg$175K
- Amanda CoxSalem$142K
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.