Alexander Crespo, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1982083887
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $149,878 of the $228,862 with a category attached, or 65.5%. Arthrex accounts for 84.4% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $178,122, more than ten times the $53 reported in 2020. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL 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 265 payments — averaging $863.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$193K
- Globus Medical$27K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Medwest Associates$952
- plus $951 from 6 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $4500.00 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.
- Arthrex$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$56,38125%
- Speaking & faculty fees$149,87865%
- Travel & lodging$16,0327%
- Food & beverage$6,5713%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 154 | $193,105 |
| Globus Medical | 40 | $27,108 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $4,517 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 21 | $1,115 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $1,114 |
| Medwest Associates | 3 | $952 |
| Stryker | 11 | $613 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $150 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $49 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- TROCH NAIL$14,279
- Globus Trauma$8,200
- NA$4,356
- Distal Femur Plate System$2,011
- Clavical Fixation (16-186)$1,181
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$651
- T2$314
- A/R Femoral Nail$303
- CALIBER$209
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$150
- Anatomic Radial Head System$150
- Elbow Plating System$150
- GAMMA$145
- TFN-Advance$144
- TRUMATCH$123
How this compares
$228,862 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
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 orthopaedic surgery in Chicago
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
- Wellington HsuChicago$1.7M
- Ken YamaguchiChicago$1.7M
- Guido MarraChicago$1.2M
- Hue LuuChicago$1.1M
- Alpesh PatelChicago$917K
- Samuel StulbergChicago$852K
- Richard BergerChicago$618K
- Ari KazChicago$343K
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.