Alexander Woods
Dermatology · Chicago, ILNPI 1306586003
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,510 of the $7,732 with a category attached, or 71.3%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 43.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,907, 3.8 times the $1,304 reported in 2023.
Across 102 payments — averaging $75.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Sanofi$827
- Lilly USA, LLC$630
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$280
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$274
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,84224%
- Food & beverage$5,51071%
- Education$3805%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 33 | $3,379 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $1,298 |
| Sanofi | 17 | $827 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $630 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $280 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $274 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $255 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $169 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $126 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $68 |
| Novartis | 2 | $64 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $50 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Biofrontera 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.
How this compares
$7,732 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 606 dermatology providers in Illinois.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tacrolimus | 26 | $3,079 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 40 | $2,149 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 36 | $1,443 |
| Ketoconazole | 97 | $1,284 |
| Fluocinonide | 18 | $754 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 60 | $714 |
| Hydrocortisone | 29 | $702 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $324 |
| Ciclopirox | 12 | $301 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 12 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Chicago
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- Peter LioChicago$2.4M
- Elizabeth KiracofeChicago$1.6M
- Carolyn JacobChicago$566K
- Walter LiszewskiChicago$414K
- Omer IbrahimChicago$313K
- Caroline RobinsonChicago$308K
- Smita AggarwalChicago$214K
- Tracee BlackburnChicago$180K
- Faiyaaz KalimullahChicago$137K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.