Alexander Gordon, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Morton Grove, ILNPI 1932153103
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $45,250 of the $62,423 with a category attached, or 72.5%. Stryker accounts for 74.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $21,807 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $244 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 82 payments — averaging $761.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$46K
- Orthosensor Inc.$14K
- KCI USA, Inc.$2K
- Dompe US, Inc.$143
- Johnson & Johnson$57
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$37
- plus $66 from 3 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $2874.95 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.
- Orthosensor Inc.$14K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$45,25072%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,80016%
- Travel & lodging$5,6689%
- Food & beverage$1,7003%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 61 | $46,276 |
| Orthosensor Inc. | 7 | $13,807 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 6 | $2,037 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $57 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $25 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$62,423 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 56 | $1,606 |
| Amoxicillin | 97 | $120 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $84 |
| Azithromycin | 17 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Morton Grove
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
- Rajeev GarapatiMorton Grove$319K
- Steven MardjetkoMorton Grove$288K
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
- Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
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.