Linda Schulte, MD
Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1477967644
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.6%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,047, more than ten times the $66 reported in 2019.
Across 144 payments — averaging $83.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$8K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$413
- Artivion, Inc.$384
- Atricure, Inc.$381
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,65022%
- Travel & lodging$3,61430%
- Food & beverage$5,36945%
- Education$4133%
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 | 80 | $7,698 |
| Abiomed | 17 | $1,065 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $1,029 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $413 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 5 | $384 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $381 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $282 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $179 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $158 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $112 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $84 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $58 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $54 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $34 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 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.
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$2,120
- EVOQUE$1,345
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$661
- Impella$598
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$530
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$338
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$255
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$204
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$183
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$167
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$167
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$167
- PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$167
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$154
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$108
How this compares
$12,046 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 612 surgery providers in Missouri.
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 | 71 | $539 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 52 | $133 |
| Potassium Chloride | 27 | $130 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 29 | $103 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 19 | $93 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 13 | $41 |
| Furosemide | 32 | $41 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $27 |
| Carvedilol | 12 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Shaina EckhouseSaint Louis$67K
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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.