Molly Schultheis, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Englewood, NJNPI 1073824702
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,639 of the $14,212 with a category attached, or 74.9%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 32.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,983 and has fallen 63.0% since, to $1,845 in 2025.
Across 274 payments — averaging $51.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Abbott$1K
- Abiomed$1K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$124
- plus $528 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,57325%
- Food & beverage$10,63975%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 96 | $4,613 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 66 | $3,031 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 30 | $3,025 |
| Abbott | 19 | $1,454 |
| Abiomed | 46 | $1,436 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $124 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $109 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $104 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 4 | $102 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $54 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,537
- CoreValve Evolut$1,136
- Mitra Clip system$800
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$664
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$347
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$303
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$245
- Impella$157
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$153
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$137
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$129
- Sarns$109
- Virtuosaph$109
How this compares
$14,212 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Englewood
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Alok DashEnglewood$6K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
- Kourosh AsgarianNeptune$93K
- James McPhersonPennington$93K
- Katherine WoodNewark$83K
- George BatsidesNew Brunswick$71K
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.