James Schultz
Family Medicine · Escondido, CANPI 1356376164
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 871 payments — averaging $2898.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$1.5M
- Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA$481K
- Novo Nordisk AS$171K
- Cipla USA Inc.$126K
- Abbott$88K
- Indivior Inc.$53K
- plus $153K from 14 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $11,193 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$157K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,56018%
- Travel & lodging$5,78766%
- Food & beverage$1,47517%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 67 | $1,451,620 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 10 | $481,169 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 521 | $171,347 |
| Cipla USA Inc. | 45 | $125,597 |
| Abbott | 12 | $88,230 |
| Indivior Inc. | 143 | $53,110 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 12 | $45,973 |
| GSK | 5 | $36,162 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $21,194 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 9 | $20,415 |
| Bayer | 22 | $14,871 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $10,988 |
| Shionogi Inc | 3 | $1,681 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $1,560 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $146 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $69 |
| Gilead | 1 | $27 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Wegovy$124
How this compares
$2,524,224 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 54 | $2,142 |
| Gabapentin | 23 | $1,166 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 13 | $786 |
| Lisinopril | 34 | $614 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 20 | $350 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Escondido
- Amina HaggagNorthridge$112.8M
- Steven ReynoldsLong Beach$53M
- Rizwana MohseniLake Forest$26.7M
- Daniel JohnsonSan Diego$15.7M
- Stacey LayleSan Diego$14.8M
- Apinya VutikullirdCypress$14.3M
- Hanid AudishSpring Valley$13.6M
- Augusto FocilOxnard$12.6M
- Jack VuLong Beach$10.1M
- Suzanne FussellOxnard$8.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.