Has Matthew Schultzel, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $122,634 in general payments to Matthew Schultzel, DO across 456 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Matthew Schultzel, DO did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Matthew Schultzel, DO come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Matthew Schultzel, DO

Surgery · la Jolla, CANPI 1306123229

Payments from drug & device makers

$122,634in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 456 payments — averaging $268.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$81K
Medtronic$15K
Virtual Incision Corporation$7K
Convatec Inc.$7K
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$3K
Mimedx Group, Inc.$1K
plus $8K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$13,39911%
Speaking & faculty fees$30,65625%
Travel & lodging$13,70211%
Food & beverage$14,65712%
Education$50,01141%
Other$2090%

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
Intuitive Surgical	152	$80,677
Medtronic	34	$15,180
Virtual Incision Corporation	16	$7,381
Convatec Inc.	23	$7,342
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	9	$2,848
Mimedx Group, Inc.	23	$1,208
Axonics, Inc.	19	$1,067
Covidien LP	6	$886
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	27	$706
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	51	$603
Stryker	8	$498
Cook Medical LLC	3	$449
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	3	$449
Davol Inc.	8	$382
AbbVie(2 entities)	6	$374
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	17	$361
Kerecis Limited	3	$325
Acell, Inc.	5	$257
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	3	$228
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$202
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	3	$153
Boston Scientific	2	$142
Coloplast	3	$134
Smith+Nephew	1	$132
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	7	$115
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	5	$89
Organogenesis Inc.	3	$59
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$55
Baxter Healthcare	1	$44
Activ Surgical, Inc.	1	$36
Histosonics, Inc.	1	$35
Bioventus LLC	1	$28
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.	1	$24
Romark Laboratories, LC	1	$23
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$23
Merck	1	$22
180 Medical, Inc.	1	$21
Guard Medical Inc.	1	$19
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$18
QOL Medical, LLC	1	$18
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$12
Prescient Surgical	1	$11

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

$122,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$419,425

Medicare patients

444

Services billed

2,312

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.

Other surgery in la Jolla

Diane Simeonela Jolla$436K
Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.9M
Peter StockSan Francisco$6.5M
Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
Kenneth DeckLaguna Hills$2.4M
Daniel RiskinSan Jose$2.2M
Michael DemeureNewport Beach$1.7M
Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
David LouriePasadena$1.4M
Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M

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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.

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