Shawna Schmidt, MD
Pain Medicine · Aberdeen, SDNPI 1770603888
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,150 of the $5,327 with a category attached, or 77.9%. Medtronic accounts for 96.0% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,137 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $53 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $104.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- AbbVie$115
- Amgen$28
- Vertex$21
- Lundbeck LLC$15
- Nevro Corp.$13
- plus $23 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,15078%
- Food & beverage$1,17822%
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 | 39 | $5,112 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $115 |
| Amgen | 1 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- SYNCHROMEDII$1,714
- RESTORESENSORSURESCAN$844
- Vanta$792
- SYNCHROMED$733
How this compares
Too few pain medicine providers in South Dakotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| UbrelvyUbrogepant | 21 | $21,633 |
| NucyntaTapentadol Hcl | 22 | $20,384 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 32 | $17,416 |
| Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe | 13 | $9,905 |
| ButransBuprenorphine | 16 | $8,637 |
| LyricaPregabalin | 13 | $8,083 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 363 | $7,043 |
| Fentanyl | 51 | $6,761 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 150 | $3,086 |
| Gabapentin | 320 | $3,034 |
| Buprenorphine | 11 | $2,529 |
| Pregabalin | 156 | $2,210 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 66 | $1,908 |
| Baclofen | 126 | $1,900 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 91 | $1,521 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieUbrelvy | $115 | $21,63321 claims |
| PfizerLyrica | $12 | $8,08313 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. There are too few pain medicine providers in South Dakotaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pain medicine in Aberdeen
- Timothy MetzSioux Falls$36K
- James DreessenSioux Falls$9K
- Brent ThurnessSioux Falls$7K
- Jeremy PoulsenDakota Dunes$5K
- John CookDakota Dunes$5K
- James BrunzSioux Falls$5K
- Frederick FisherDakota Dunes$4K
- Patrick RetterathWatertown$1K
- Samuel BartmessSioux Falls$995
- Thomas BoetelSioux Falls$581
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.