Richard Schatz
Interventional Cardiology · la Jolla, CANPI 1154388189
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 189 payments — averaging $630.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$75K
- ZOLL Circulation Inc$27K
- Biotronik Inc.$15K
- AstraZeneca$375
- Medtronic$331
- Philips North America LLC$305
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,3003%
- Speaking & faculty fees$88,68074%
- Travel & lodging$21,19218%
- Food & beverage$5,9935%
- Education$430%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 62 | $74,801 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 22 | $26,652 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 40 | $14,965 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $375 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $331 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $305 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $292 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 14 | $246 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $218 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $184 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $135 |
| Acutus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Novartis | 5 | $84 |
| Amgen | 3 | $69 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $33 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $25 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- LifeVest$74,015
- Catheter$26,296
- TherOx DS2 Console$18,796
- Downstream Cartridge$18,796
- PK Papyrus$10,860
- Pulsar$9,096
- Orsiro$9,096
- Astron; Pulsar; AstronPulsar$9,096
- Passeo$8,428
- Temperature Management System$7,500
- Temperature Management System Start-Up Kit$7,500
- PRO-Kinetic Energy$2,432
- Orsiro Mission$2,023
- Passeo-18$1,764
- Pulsar-18 T3$1,629
- IGT D Coronary$232
- BRILINTA$216
- RESOLUTE ONYX$154
- NHancer Rx$150
- TrapIT$150
How this compares
$119,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
Other interventional cardiology in la Jolla
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$5.8M
- Paul Teirsteinla Jolla$1.9M
- Curtiss Stinisla Jolla$1.7M
- Rajendra MakkarWest Hollywood$16.6M
- Fahed BitarCovina$9.9M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$6.6M
- David LeeStanford$5.7M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$5.4M
- Mehrdad ArianiNorthridge$5M
- Frederick St GoarMountain View$4.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.