Christian Shults, MD
Surgery · Washington, DCNPI 1083871081
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 527 payments — averaging $1596.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$351K
- AbbVie$308K
- Bolton Medical Inc$115K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$28K
- Medtronic$28K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- plus $8K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$183,04871%
- Travel & lodging$54,45021%
- Food & beverage$20,3048%
- Education$380%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 259 | $351,058 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 56 | $308,218 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 61 | $115,382 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 33 | $28,274 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $28,222 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 18 | $2,289 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 10 | $2,118 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 3 | $2,103 |
| Abbott | 21 | $1,426 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 10 | $836 |
| Abiomed | 19 | $526 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $185 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $110 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $38 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$122,960
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$74,422
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$19,624
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$18,417
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$10,437
- Product in Development$6,435
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$3,904
- Relay Plus$3,758
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$3,113
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,966
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,459
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$1,070
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,039
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$854
- Grafts$835
- CoreValve Evolut$475
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$376
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$366
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$295
- AMPLATZER Occluders$283
How this compares
$841,138 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 117 surgery providers in District of Columbia.
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.
Other surgery in Washington
- Jeffrey ShuppWashington$1.2M
- Babak SaraniWashington$613K
- Jonathan JohnsonWashington$399K
- Parag BhanotWashington$131K
- Frederick BrodyWashington$112K
- Megan QuintanaWashington$49K
- Terrence FullumWashington$46K
- Jesse GarciaWashington$40K
- Vinod NarraWashington$38K
- Adeel ShamimWashington$38K
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.