Shinil Shah, DO
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1861747677
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,547 of the $14,184 with a category attached, or 60.3%. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9%.
Across 138 payments — averaging $102.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Activ Surgical, Inc.$1K
- Baxter Healthcare$878
- Medtronic$815
- AbbVie$650
- plus $4K from 20 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $50,000 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.
- Activ Surgical, Inc.$75K
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.$25K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,1268%
- Travel & lodging$4,51232%
- Food & beverage$8,54760%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 29 | $3,393 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 22 | $3,096 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 6 | $1,493 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 9 | $878 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $815 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $650 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $545 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $518 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $354 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $335 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $322 |
| Stryker | 3 | $271 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $263 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $226 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $224 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $205 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $187 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $94 |
| Abbott | 4 | $93 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $82 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $36 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $13 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,187
- ActivSight$1,411
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$1,221
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$743
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$489
- Signia$451
- PerClot$437
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$263
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$245
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$168
- SpyGlass Discover$157
- GRAFIX PL$150
- Stravix$150
- Oasis$150
- GORE ENFORM Intraperitoneal Biomaterial$146
- Echelon Flex$138
- SmartAblateTM System RF Generator$138
- SEPRAFILM$131
- VISTASEAL$121
- MONOCRYL$121
How this compares
$14,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 21 | $4,085 |
| Ursodiol | 17 | $852 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 43 | $411 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 18 | $162 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 11 | $156 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 12 | $101 |
| Methocarbamol | 23 | $94 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $69 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $28 |
| Omeprazole | 11 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
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.