Alexandru Chicos, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1316138704
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,185 of the $5,459 with a category attached, or 76.7%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 25.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,177, 2.6 times the $826 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $24,482.
Across 86 payments — averaging $63.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Biotronik Inc.$815
- Abbott$787
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$480
- GE HealthCare$337
- plus $568 from 6 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $4675.50 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.
- Volta Medical Inc$28K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3376%
- Travel & lodging$93717%
- Food & beverage$4,18577%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $1,406 |
| Boston Scientific | 23 | $1,066 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 10 | $815 |
| Abbott | 18 | $787 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 10 | $480 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $337 |
| Volta Medical Inc | 2 | $304 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $98 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $89 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $31 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Catheter Precision Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$835
- MUSE$337
- VX1$293
- Carto 3$269
- Consulta$220
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$188
- ENSITE PRECISION$182
- RELIANCE 4 FRONT$150
- LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$118
How this compares
$5,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 448 | $583,861 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 142 | $184,992 |
| Dofetilide | 49 | $20,080 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 281 | $4,637 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 99 | $3,851 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 89 | $3,380 |
| Mexiletine Hcl | 11 | $2,359 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 55 | $1,609 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 61 | $1,249 |
| Sotalol AfSotalol Hcl | 11 | $458 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 35 | $295 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 22 | $245 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 35 | $211 |
| Carvedilol | 15 | $158 |
| Lisinopril | 11 | $102 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $98 | $583,861448 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 20th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Chicago
- Roderick TungChicago$795K
- Bradley KnightChicago$661K
- Gaurav UpadhyayChicago$593K
- Hany DemoChicago$297K
- Nishant VermaChicago$232K
- Susan KimChicago$186K
- Martin BurkeChicago$183K
- Arjun MehtaChicago$152K
- Rod PassmanChicago$92K
- Zaid AzizChicago$74K
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.