Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Nirmish Shah

Internal Medicine Durham, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1033113899 CMS profile 1752

3643 N Roxboro St, Durham, NC 27704

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General payments

$861,816

612 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$144,928

Paid to them · 77 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$964,878 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Nirmish Shah of Durham, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $861,816 across 612 general payments and $144,928 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $964,878 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Internal Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

12 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $50,360 37
2025 Research $51,785 25
2024 General $162,752 126
2024 Research $31,560 13
2023 General $131,118 92
2023 Research $24,310 12
2022 General $157,068 97
2021 General $122,435 79
2020 General $104,452 62
2020 Research $5,000 3
2019 General $133,632 119
2019 Research $32,274 24

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Nirmish Shah
  • Internal Medicine median
  • Middle half of Internal Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Nirmish Shah were reported at $50,360. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.

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Year Nirmish Shah Internal Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $133,632 $159 $48–$570 $163
2020 $104,452 $119 $33–$402 $114
2021 $122,435 $135 $37–$521 $132
2022 $157,068 $141 $42–$496 $149
2023 $131,118 $149 $45–$519 $160
2024 $162,752 $154 $47–$537 $164
2025 $50,360 $156 $47–$551 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. $256,632 140 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $224,279 169 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $165,575 123 payments
  4. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $107,900 95 payments
  5. Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $38,711 30 payments
  6. Chiesi USA, Inc. $15,325 12 payments
  7. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $13,143 7 payments
  8. Novo Nordisk Inc $12,392 9 payments
  9. Emmaus Medical, Inc. $10,203 15 payments
  10. bluebird bio, Inc. $5,850 3 payments
  11. Other $11,805 9 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $447,551 160 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $249,783 81 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $78,385 201 payments
  4. Honoraria $62,879 24 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $11,418 143 payments
  6. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $11,100 2 payments
  7. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $700 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. OXBRYTA Sickle Cell Disease $240,907 132 payments
  2. OXBRYTA Hematology $182,749 148 payments
  3. ADAKVEO $78,051 54 payments
  4. ULTOMIRIS Rare Disease $42,881 30 payments
  5. PYRUKYND $39,038 29 payments
  6. FERRIPROX $13,225 11 payments
  7. XIFAXAN $11,418 6 payments
  8. Endari $10,203 15 payments
  9. Ultomiris Immunology $6,372 10 payments
  10. SKYSONA $5,850 3 payments
  11. Other $19,783 23 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $95,468 31 payments
  2. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $37,274 27 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $11,130 10 payments
  4. Sanofi US Services Inc. $1,057 9 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

63

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 604

Drug cost

$9,031

Median for Hematology-Oncology: $1,306,514

Branded share of claims

19%

Median for Hematology-Oncology: 31.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 12 $6,708
Hydroxyurea Generic 51 $2,322

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 8,746 Part D prescribers listed as Hematology-Oncology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 11 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$2,687

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

23

Average age 58

Services billed

43

12 women, 11 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 6 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
OXBRYTA
  • PFIZER INC. $114,020
$114,020 — —
PYRUKYND
  • Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $12,165
$12,165 — —
ULTOMIRIS
  • Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $6,539
$6,539 — —
FERRIPROX
  • CHIESI USA, INC. $4,350
$4,350 — —
Zynteglo
  • bluebird bio, Inc. $600
$600 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

689 reported

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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