Mark Schultzel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1689990913
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 294 payments — averaging $315.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$24K
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$22K
- Vertex$16K
- Convatec Inc.$12K
- Stryker$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- plus $11K from 37 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,04529%
- Speaking & faculty fees$36,49339%
- Travel & lodging$11,30612%
- Food & beverage$16,62018%
- Education$1,2001%
- Gifts$1220%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 30 | $24,395 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 29 | $21,638 |
| Vertex | 24 | $16,286 |
| Convatec Inc. | 13 | $11,875 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 62 | $4,683 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $3,305 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 20 | $1,849 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $1,117 |
| Acumed LLC | 12 | $908 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 7 | $769 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 3 | $606 |
| Bioventus LLC | 25 | $566 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 4 | $536 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $532 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $524 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $243 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 3 | $226 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $149 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $128 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $125 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $116 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $110 |
| Linkbio Corp | 2 | $97 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Embody, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $71 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $46 |
| Elevate Surgical Co | 1 | $45 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- EXPAREL$23,719
- InSet System$21,312
- JOURNAVX$15,913
- AQUACEL Ag Advantage Surgical$4,550
- AQUACEL Ag Advantage$3,900
- AQUACEL$2,940
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$1,211
- ACUMED$997
- INSPACE$785
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$697
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$697
- BioBrace 23mm$517
- Kerecis SurgiClose$502
- ICONIX$472
- SALVATION$445
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$316
- Iovera$263
- Catalyst Total CSR$203
- Restrata Wound Matrix$202
- Photodynamic Bone Stabilization Procedure Pack$176
How this compares
$92,787 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 50 | $834 |
| Omeprazole | 69 | $699 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 38 | $416 |
| Meloxicam | 120 | $386 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 19 | $129 |
| Amoxicillin | 17 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Diego
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Joseph JankiewiczSan Diego$2.6M
- Mark McBrideSan Diego$2.6M
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
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.