Curtiss Stinis, MD
Interventional Cardiology · la Jolla, CANPI 1073636577
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $485,483 of the $759,007 with a category attached, or 64.0%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 64.6% of it on its own, with 35 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 909 payments — averaging $834.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$490K
- Medtronic$108K
- Cook Incorporated$68K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$51K
- Abbott$9K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- plus $26K from 30 others
Across 90 payments — averaging $10,501 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.
- Edwards Lifesciences$813K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$132K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$485,48364%
- Speaking & faculty fees$212,36628%
- Grants$2,1450%
- Travel & lodging$25,4843%
- Food & beverage$33,3694%
- Education$140%
- Entertainment$1460%
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 | 394 | $490,072 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 135 | $107,708 |
| Cook Incorporated | 18 | $68,234 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 51 | $51,261 |
| Abbott | 24 | $8,547 |
| Boston Scientific | 58 | $7,164 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 60 | $6,750 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $6,315 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $6,269 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 20 | $1,050 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $881 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 19 | $878 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 5 | $689 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $669 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 11 | $326 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 17 | $323 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 3 | $301 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $281 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $169 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 2 | $152 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $147 |
| Opsens Inc. | 2 | $146 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 4 | $110 |
| Novartis | 6 | $96 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $92 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $92 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $68 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $43 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $42 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $25 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $16 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$416,917
- FFRangio$43,175
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$40,888
- EVOQUE$25,422
- CoreValve Evolut$24,517
- Cook Medical Self-Expanding Stent$19,547
- Cook Medical IAA$18,642
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$16,484
- Cook Medical Zilver PTX$15,147
- Vascular Lithotripsy$9,525
- Lunderquist$7,560
- Cook Medical Angioplasty$6,586
- Indigo System$6,285
- Product in Development$6,120
- Omnilink Elite vascular stent system$4,000
- Xience V coronary stent system$3,696
- ONYX FRONTIER$3,215
- Resolute$2,930
- Cook Medical Venous Access$2,700
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$2,276
How this compares
$759,007 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
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 interventional cardiology in la Jolla
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$2.3M
- Paul Teirsteinla Jolla$518K
- Richard Schatzla Jolla$119K
- Frederick St GoarMountain View$2.2M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$1.1M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$1M
- Puneet KhannaRancho Mirage$1M
- Dennis SheehanRedwood City$900K
- Suhail DohadBeverly Hills$802K
- Christian SpiesBurlingame$719K
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.