Gregory Czaja
Interventional Cardiology · la Jolla, CANPI 1225390461
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 118 payments — averaging $69.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Abbott$970
- Boston Scientific$801
- Abiomed$661
- Edwards Lifesciences$448
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$390%
- Food & beverage$8,108100%
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 | 23 | $2,579 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $1,497 |
| Abbott | 25 | $970 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $801 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $661 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $448 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $193 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 9 | $192 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $153 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $112 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $108 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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$2,408
- AVVIGO Guidance System$493
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$411
- RESOLUTE ONYX$385
- Resolute$328
- CoreValve Evolut$279
- Impella$259
- ONYX FRONTIER$175
- Sentinel$172
- RhythmVIEW Work Stations$153
- FFRct$146
- APTIVUE$142
- MitraClip$138
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$138
- LifeVest$134
- TURNPIKE$125
- VYNDAQEL$112
- Micropuncture$108
How this compares
$8,147 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 39 | $585 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in la Jolla
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$5.8M
- Paul Teirsteinla Jolla$1.9M
- Curtiss Stinisla Jolla$1.7M
- Rajendra MakkarWest Hollywood$16.6M
- Fahed BitarCovina$9.9M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$6.6M
- David LeeStanford$5.7M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$5.4M
- Mehrdad ArianiNorthridge$5M
- Frederick St GoarMountain View$4.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.