Robert Schwartz
Cardiovascular Disease · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1750341889
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $492,642 of the $501,793 with a category attached, or 98.2%. Integer Holdings Corporation accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in MN 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 24 payments — averaging $20,908 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integer Holdings Corporation$493K
- Boston Scientific$8K
- Medtronic$400
- Canon Medical Informatics, Inc.$148
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$80
- Amgen$27
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$492,64298%
- Consulting fees$7,2001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4000%
- Travel & lodging$5600%
- Food & beverage$9920%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integer Holdings Corporation | 5 | $492,642 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $8,496 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $400 |
| Canon Medical Informatics, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Amgen | 1 | $27 |
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.
- SH Guidewires$492,642
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$7,200
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$862
- ADVANCED VISUALIZATION$116
How this compares
$501,793 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
Other cardiovascular disease in Minneapolis
- Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3.2M
- Markus MeyerMinneapolis$786K
- Robert VantasselMinneapolis$493K
- Nedaa SkeikMinneapolis$453K
- Joao CavalcanteMinneapolis$384K
- Inderjit AnandMinneapolis$384K
- David HurrellMinneapolis$205K
- Yader Sandoval PichardoMinneapolis$157K
- Charles HerzogMinneapolis$157K
- Tamas AlexyMinneapolis$117K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.