George Skaf
Internal Medicine · Riverside, CANPI 1396205035
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $56.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$998
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$711
- Abiomed$454
- Inari Medical, Inc.$426
- Abbott$388
- Boston Scientific$337
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,10697%
- Education$1373%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 17 | $998 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $711 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $454 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $426 |
| Abbott | 4 | $388 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $337 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $307 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $285 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $175 |
| Stryker | 1 | $163 |
| Amgen | 2 | $147 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $129 |
| Merck | 7 | $114 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $111 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $71 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $38 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Cardiovascular Systems 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.
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$866
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$527
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$527
- KEVZARA$469
- UPTRAVI$268
- OPSUMIT$268
- LifeVest$228
- NAVITOR$180
- MitraClip$176
- WATCHMAN FLX$137
- Impella$125
- Tavneos$125
- GENERAL ULTRASOUND$123
- BRILINTA$121
- CAMZYOS$111
How this compares
$5,243 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Riverside
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
- Alexandra DrakakiSanta Monica$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.