Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Michael Schechter

Interventional Cardiology Boca Raton, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1801231311 CMS profile 7981614

951 Nw 13Th St, Boca Raton, FL 33486

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General payments

$11,904

250 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Michael Schechter of Boca Raton, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $11,904 across 250 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 63rd percentile of Interventional Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $3,001 46
2024 General $2,996 58
2023 General $2,216 61
2022 General $1,627 36
2021 General $1,161 35
2020 General $903 14

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Michael Schechter
  • Interventional Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Interventional Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Schechter were reported at $3,001. Among 6,173 Interventional Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,092 and the middle half received between $366 and $3,019.

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Year Michael Schechter Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $903 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $1,161 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $1,627 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $2,216 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $2,996 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $3,001 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $3,911 55 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $1,963 22 payments
  3. Boston Scientific Corporation $943 23 payments
  4. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $856 8 payments
  5. Abiomed $846 9 payments
  6. Atricure, Inc. $410 5 payments
  7. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $382 21 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $284 6 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $200 9 payments
  10. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $176 9 payments
  11. Other $1,932 83 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $10,705 240 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,085 8 payments
  3. Education $114 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. COREVALVE EVOLUT R $1,533 14 payments
  2. TRICLIP $1,193 11 payments
  3. Impella $846 9 payments
  4. JOT DX Cardiac Rhythm Management $413 8 payments
  5. LifeVest $382 21 payments
  6. JOT DX Structural Heart $375 4 payments
  7. LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor $358 9 payments
  8. AVEIR Structural Heart $342 2 payments
  9. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $338 2 payments
  10. AVEIR Cardiac Rhythm Management $269 3 payments
  11. Other $5,702 172 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 25 drugs

Part D claims

1,287

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 2,236

Drug cost

$266,824

Median for Interventional Cardiology: $380,412

Branded share of claims

27.4%

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 27.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 92 $110,365
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 39 $41,417
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 39 $37,039
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 42 $31,540
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 15 $19,985
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 18 $11,354
Midodrine Hcl Generic 15 $2,549
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 172 $2,541
Bumetanide Generic 89 $2,212
Losartan Potassium Generic 105 $1,411

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 25 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 4,694 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 61 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$586,178

Of which drugs: $1,153

Medicare patients

1,459

Average age 80

Services billed

5,479

737 women, 722 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 69%
Arthritis 58%
Heart failure 46%
Atrial fibrillation 46%
Chronic kidney disease 44%
Diabetes 40%
Depression 36%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 Office 55 224 $1,153

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 7 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ELIQUIS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $55
  • PFIZER INC. $46
$101 92 —
LODOCO
  • AGEPHA Pharma FZ LLC $46
$46 — —
VYNDAQEL
  • PFIZER INC. $21
$21 — —
PAXLOVID
  • PFIZER INC. $21
$21 — —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $18
$18 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

250 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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