Has Shoshauna Baer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $487 in general payments to Shoshauna Baer, MD across 9 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Shoshauna Baer, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Shoshauna Baer, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Shoshauna Baer, MD

Hospitalist · Monterey, CANPI 1881126209

Payments from drug & device makers

$487in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $54.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$186
Cochlear Americas$136
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$103
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC$61

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$486100%
Education$10%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$186
Cochlear Americas	1	$136
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$103
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	2	$61

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

$487 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,469 hospitalist providers in California.

See all hospitalist providers in California →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$391,588

Medicare patients

1,364

Services billed

4,840

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
EliquisApixaban	18	$9,991
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	12	$100
Pantoprazole Sodium	18	$89
Azithromycin	14	$68
Atorvastatin Calcium	11	$59
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	12	$43
Amlodipine Besylate	13	$41
Furosemide	11	$23

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hospitalist in Monterey

John BeckesNational City$15.5M
Samuel PenzinerLos Angeles$2.5M
Michael Abdel-MalekDublin$2M
Billy HourMission Hills$1.9M
Jennifer SchneiderSanta Rosa$1.2M
Alpesh AminOrange$929K
Soham ShahBakersfield$844K
Deanna CheungLong Beach$732K
Dennis TsangHuntington Park$672K
Nana BarseghianPanorama City$510K

See the full list for California →

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.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →