Jessica Schultz
Family · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1780321844
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 48.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,420 and has fallen 74.5% since, to $617 in 2025. Among family clinicians in PA 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 46 payments — averaging $71.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Smith+Nephew$43
- Medtronic$25
- Atricure, Inc.$24
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$24
- plus $30 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,28339%
- Food & beverage$1,89357%
- Education$1304%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 22 | $1,602 |
| Boston Scientific | 17 | $1,559 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $43 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$3,305 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,717 family providers in Pennsylvania.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 77 | $682 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $14 |
| Amoxicillin | 11 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Pittsburgh
- Kathleen ScholzPittsburgh$397K
- Kweilynn GreenePittsburgh$139K
- Margaret RosenzweigPittsburgh$89K
- Patricia HabdasPittsburgh$83K
- Morgan ColePittsburgh$41K
- Amber GrinnellPittsburgh$33K
- Matthew BarnesPittsburgh$25K
- Alexander TatangeloPittsburgh$20K
- Sydney MurrayPittsburgh$19K
- Renee ConnPittsburgh$15K
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.