Eric Schwartzman
Cardiovascular Disease · Chesapeake, VANPI 1558310268
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 195 payments — averaging $35.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$504
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$231
- Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.$120
- AstraZeneca$108
- plus $714 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,21346%
- Food & beverage$3,68253%
- Education$431%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 108 | $3,062 |
| Medtronic | 29 | $2,199 |
| Boston Scientific | 25 | $504 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $231 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $120 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $108 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 4 | $106 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $98 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 6 | $97 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Merck | 1 | $69 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $55 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $32 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $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.
How this compares
$6,938 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 548 cardiovascular disease providers in Virginia.
Other cardiovascular disease in Chesapeake
- Tariq HaddadFalls Church$8M
- David LimCharlottesville$6M
- Hamid TaheriManassas$4.9M
- Philip OdonnellWinchester$4.6M
- Antonio AbbateCharlottesville$4M
- George VetrovecRichmond$2.3M
- Henry TranFalls Church$1.6M
- John SchmedtjeRoanoke$1.4M
- Jonathan LindnerCharlottesville$941K
- Christopher KramerCharlottesville$929K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.