RxDoctor Payments Data

Shirley Shih, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Media, PANPI 1770718397

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (58.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.6% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,088 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $45 in 2025.

$6,849in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $148.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$6K
  • Guard Medical Inc.$242
  • Smith+Nephew$116
  • TEI Biosciences Inc$113
  • Axonics, Inc.$64
  • Johnson & Johnson$31
  • plus $212 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,68425%
  • Food & beverage$1,16517%
  • Education$4,00058%

General payments by program year

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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.

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.

How this compares

$6,849 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 108 colon & rectal surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$149,808
Medicare patients
240
Services billed
552

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocortisone27$193
Oxycodone Hcl11$66
Neomycin Sulfate12$63
Metronidazole16$45

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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