David Tschopp, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Austin, TXNPI 1285679431
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,455 payments — averaging $279.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$257K
- Medtronic$92K
- Abbott$33K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$7K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$5K
- plus $9K from 22 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $8656.73 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$37,05033%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,3507%
- Travel & lodging$15,02013%
- Food & beverage$49,29643%
- Other$3,8583%
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. | 180 | $256,694 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $92,046 |
| Abbott | 659 | $32,576 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 195 | $6,511 |
| Boston Scientific | 29 | $5,213 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 84 | $4,780 |
| Pfizer | 108 | $4,545 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 92 | $1,636 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 26 | $549 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 5 | $499 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 21 | $462 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 5 | $280 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 6 | $144 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $107 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 4 | $80 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $35 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| G Medical Diagnostic Services, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Novartis | 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.
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$25,760
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$17,978
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$17,028
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$9,886
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$9,720
- ELIQUIS$6,585
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$6,500
- DISSECTOR$6,500
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$5,193
- LARIAT SUTURE DELIVERY DEVICE$4,810
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$3,858
- ASSURITY$3,838
- AVEIR$3,602
- LARIAT RS$3,121
- Carto 3$2,653
- GALLANT$2,312
- Assurity Pacemaker$1,708
- Fortify Assura, Ellipse ICD$1,194
- WATCHMAN FLX$416
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$414
How this compares
$406,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 881 | $920,820 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 125 | $155,738 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 121 | $137,877 |
| Dofetilide | 103 | $15,625 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 433 | $13,743 |
| Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 19 | $6,126 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 351 | $5,560 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 112 | $2,714 |
| Mexiletine Hcl | 30 | $2,583 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 154 | $2,473 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 87 | $1,408 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 62 | $1,199 |
| Digoxin | 43 | $717 |
| Propafenone Hcl | 14 | $472 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 57 | $338 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $4,545 | $920,820881 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $1,636 | $155,738125 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $549 | $137,877121 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.
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- Robert CanbyAustin$1.5M
- Amin Al-AhmadAustin$1.4M
- Jason ZagrodzkyAustin$961K
- Khaled AwadAustin$745K
- Mauricio HongAustin$726K
- Javier SanchezAustin$199K
- Weeranun BodeAustin$178K
- David KesslerAustin$119K
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.