George Skaf
Internal Medicine · Riverside, CANPI 1396205035
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.4% of the total across 93 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among internal medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
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
- Christopher SwansonRiverside$319K
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
- Hatim HusainSan Diego$2M
- Teck LingPalo Alto$1.1M
- Hyong Kimla Jolla$1M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$965K
- Fred CohenSan Francisco$929K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.