Kushal Karnik, MD
Hospitalist · Chula Vista, CANPI 1609194125
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 23 payments — averaging $119.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$708
- Abbott$597
- Edwards Lifesciences$195
- Medtronic$173
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$148
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$145
- plus $788 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,754100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $708 |
| Abbott | 4 | $597 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $195 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $173 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $145 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $143 |
| Acutus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Novartis | 1 | $123 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $112 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $101 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $35 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $28 |
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.
- CardioMEMS HF System$285
- Watchman$239
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$195
- Amplia MRI$173
- MitraClip$163
- LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$150
- Confirm Rx$149
- UPTRAVI$148
- OPSUMIT$148
- REZDIFFRA$143
- ENTRESTO$123
- EMBLEM S ICD ELECTRODE DELIVERY SYSTEM$121
- CAMZYOS$112
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$105
- Plexa ProMRI$101
- BioMonitor$101
- AMVIA EDGE$101
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$101
- Da Vinci Surgical System$101
How this compares
$2,754 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,469 hospitalist providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 20 | $299 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 15 | $187 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $101 |
| Prednisone | 13 | $101 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 12 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Chula Vista
- John BeckesNational City$15.5M
- Samuel PenzinerLos Angeles$2.5M
- Michael Abdel-MalekDublin$2M
- Billy HourMission Hills$1.9M
- Jennifer SchneiderSanta Rosa$1.2M
- Alpesh AminOrange$929K
- Soham ShahBakersfield$844K
- Deanna CheungLong Beach$732K
- Dennis TsangHuntington Park$672K
- Nana BarseghianPanorama City$510K
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.