David Schultz, MD
Pain Medicine · Edina, MNNPI 1669481719
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $68,145 of the $98,643 with a category attached, or 69.1%. Abbott accounts for 84.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $35,311 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $43 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in MN 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 276 payments — averaging $357.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$83K
- Medtronic$8K
- Flowonix Medical Incorporated$7K
- Nevro Corp.$186
- Curonix LLC$98
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$84
- plus $337 from 14 others
Across 248 payments — averaging $26,958 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.
- Medtronic$6.3M
- Abbott$345K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$68,14569%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,18121%
- Travel & lodging$2,8183%
- Food & beverage$6,4527%
- Education$470%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 200 | $82,834 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 47 | $8,104 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $7,000 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $186 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $98 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $84 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $11 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $11 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$22,278
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$20,893
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$17,149
- Prometra II$7,000
- Infinity DBS Pulse Generators$5,378
- Axium INS DRG IPG$5,114
- Proclaim IPG$5,032
- SYNCHROMED$3,625
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$3,047
- VECTRIS$500
- Proclaim DRG IPG$460
- Neuromodulation-Research Only$426
- ETERNA$266
- INTELLIS$250
- SlimTip lead DRG Lead$134
How this compares
$98,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 88 pain medicine providers in Minnesota.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 29 | $306 |
| Mupirocin | 27 | $228 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Edina
- Richard StaynerEdina$105K
- Matthew ThorsonEdina$59K
- Sherri HaasEdina$51K
- Louis SaegerEdina$28K
- Andrew WillEdina$22K
- Aaron BloomEdina$6K
- Rachel WilsonEdina$3K
- Daniel SippleEdina$2K
- Jonathan HagedornRochester$83K
- Michael McEntireRochester$70K
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.