Paul Teirstein, MD
Interventional Cardiology · la Jolla, CANPI 1548210768
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $370,918 of the $518,156 with a category attached, or 71.6%. 44 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 42.8% of the total. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 852 payments — averaging $608.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$222K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$137K
- Boston Scientific$61K
- Abiomed$32K
- Edwards Lifesciences$24K
- Biotronik Inc.$17K
- plus $25K from 38 others
Across 239 payments — averaging $5724.92 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$768K
- Boston Scientific$498K
- Abbott$91K
- Edwards Lifesciences$11K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$10,1612%
- Consulting fees$48,8259%
- Speaking & faculty fees$370,91872%
- Grants$18,0003%
- Travel & lodging$23,6075%
- Food & beverage$46,2929%
- Education$670%
- Entertainment$2860%
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.
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.
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$135,662
- FFRangio$88,376
- Resolute$34,538
- Impella$30,352
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$28,437
- RESOLUTE ONYX$14,811
- CoreValve Evolut$11,687
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$5,520
- FFRct$4,104
- ONYX FRONTIER$3,833
- HyperVue Imaging System$3,287
- Starlight Imaging Catheter$1,881
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,565
- Sentinel$1,400
- HD-IVUS$1,202
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$973
- ASAHI PTCA Guide Wire$939
- AVVIGO Guidance System$938
- Orsiro Mission$840
- SYMPLICITY G3$775
How this compares
$518,156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology 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.
Other interventional cardiology in la Jolla
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$2.3M
- Curtiss Stinisla Jolla$759K
- Richard Schatzla Jolla$119K
- Frederick St GoarMountain View$2.2M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$1.1M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$1M
- Puneet KhannaRancho Mirage$1M
- Dennis SheehanRedwood City$900K
- Suhail DohadBeverly Hills$802K
- Christian SpiesBurlingame$719K
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.