Has George Schade, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $78,404 in general payments to George Schade, MD across 96 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean George Schade, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about George Schade, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

George Schade, MD

Urology · Seattle, WANPI 1740491265

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $67,295 of the $78,404 with a category attached, or 85.8%. EDAP Technomed Inc accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among urology clinicians in WA 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.

$78,404in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 96 payments — averaging $816.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

EDAP Technomed Inc$78K
Olympus America Inc.$139
Blue Earth Diagnostics$27
Boston Scientific$12

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$67,29586%
Travel & lodging$7,0909%
Food & beverage$4,0195%

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
EDAP Technomed Inc	92	$78,226
Olympus America Inc.	2	$139
Blue Earth Diagnostics	1	$27
Boston Scientific	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.

FOCAL ONE$26,423
iTIND System$105

How this compares

$78,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 274 urology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$124,595

Medicare patients

291

Services billed

697

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
Tamsulosin Hcl	178	$2,421
Finasteride	123	$1,872
Silodosin	11	$1,370
Solifenacin Succinate	41	$577
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	106	$148
Meloxicam	28	$46

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Rogerio HuangSeattle$45K
Cristopher GarlitzSeattle$45K
Sarah PsutkaSeattle$40K
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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.

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