Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Christian Shults

Surgery Washington, DC Medical Doctor

NPI 1083871081 CMS profile 48959

110 Irving St Nw, Washington, DC 20010

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General payments

$257,840

421 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$583,298 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Christian Shults of Washington, DC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $257,840 across 421 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $583,298 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $14,750 22
2024 General $40,148 40
2023 General $76,852 74
2022 General $32,160 57
2021 General $69,879 134
2020 General $7,582 19
2019 General $16,469 75

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Christian Shults
  • Surgery median
  • Middle half of Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Christian Shults were reported at $14,750. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.

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Year Christian Shults Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $16,469 $253 $82–$1,521 $163
2020 $7,582 $131 $40–$706 $114
2021 $69,879 $168 $50–$904 $132
2022 $32,160 $224 $76–$1,218 $149
2023 $76,852 $253 $82–$1,255 $160
2024 $40,148 $279 $90–$1,381 $164
2025 $14,750 $280 $91–$1,259 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Atricure, Inc. $217,346 247 payments
  2. Bolton Medical Inc $17,005 25 payments
  3. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $10,899 31 payments
  4. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2,289 18 payments
  5. CryoLife, Inc. $2,118 10 payments
  6. Ethicon Inc. $2,048 1 payment
  7. Abbott Laboratories $1,426 21 payments
  8. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $999 14 payments
  9. Allergan Inc. $950 3 payments
  10. Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. $836 10 payments
  11. Other $1,926 41 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $183,048 60 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $54,450 97 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $20,304 263 payments
  4. Education $38 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX $125,186 120 payments
  2. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $76,366 87 payments
  3. ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM $20,435 28 payments
  4. AtriCure cryoICE cryoSPHERE Cryoablation System $18,607 24 payments
  5. ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM $10,437 4 payments
  6. Product in Development $6,506 8 payments
  7. ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $4,096 9 payments
  8. Relay Plus $3,400 2 payments
  9. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS $3,204 8 payments
  10. GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis $2,140 11 payments
  11. Other $13,753 143 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 44 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$414,480

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

198

Average age 76

Services billed

497

78 women, 120 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Heart failure 60%
Atrial fibrillation 59%
Chronic kidney disease 52%
Arthritis 49%
Diabetes 47%
COPD 21%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

421 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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