Has Raymond Schaerf, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $299,992 in general payments to Raymond Schaerf, MD across 293 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 Raymond Schaerf, MD 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 Raymond Schaerf, MD 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.

Raymond Schaerf, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Burbank, CANPI 1912903295

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.9%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Angiodynamics, Inc. at 28.5% of the total. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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.

$299,992in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 293 payments — averaging $1023.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Angiodynamics, Inc.$85K
Cook Incorporated$85K
Abbott$50K
Merit Medical Systems Inc$37K
Medtronic$18K
Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$18K
plus $7K from 3 others

$45,894in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $1119.38 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.

Abbott$32K
Cook Research Incorporated$14K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$155,55652%
Speaking & faculty fees$104,34035%
Travel & lodging$27,8779%
Food & beverage$9,1323%
Education$3,0861%

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
Angiodynamics, Inc.	30	$85,367
Cook Incorporated	37	$85,130
Abbott	88	$50,150
Merit Medical Systems Inc	19	$36,641
Medtronic(2 entities)	57	$17,831
Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated	6	$17,780
Cook Medical LLC	51	$5,001
Atricure, Inc.	2	$2,016
Philips North America LLC	3	$78

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.

Evolution$85,429
AngioVac$28,982
Confirm Rx$15,894
AVEIR$13,275
Cook Medical Lead Management$13,058
Cook Medical Lead Extraction$5,550
Tendril Pacing Lead$5,061
Fortify Assura, Ellipse ICD$4,998
Accent Pacemaker$4,600
Assurity Pacemaker$2,030
Allure CRT Pacemaker$1,575
Cook Medical Lead Management - Lead Extraction$986
Epic$575
AlphaVac$450
PERFORMER$423
AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$414
Micra$269
Merlin Connectivity and Remote$263
SelectSecure$117

How this compares

$299,992 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$65,499

Medicare patients

Services billed

157

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 Burbank

Richard GillespieBurbank$190K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K
Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$577K

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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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