Ali Alaraj, MD
Neurological Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1568667806
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $143,900 of the $155,183 with a category attached, or 92.7%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 98.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $48,629 and has fallen 55.7% since, to $21,519 in 2025. Among neurological 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 109 payments — averaging $1423.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$153K
- Microvention, Inc.$561
- Medtronic$549
- Zimmer Biomet$302
- Penumbra, Inc.$162
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$88
- plus $74 from 1 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $9417.38 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.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$164K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$33K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$143,90093%
- Travel & lodging$7,5235%
- Food & beverage$3,7482%
- Gifts$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 94 | $153,448 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 3 | $561 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $549 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $302 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $74 |
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.
- TRUFILL$115,515
- Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$58,126
- PULSERIDER$56,677
- EMBOGUARD$36,300
- CEREPAK UNIFORM$15,750
- Embotrap$15,750
- WEB$526
- MazorX - Renaissance$285
- Penumbra System$162
- VANTAGE ANTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEM$142
- 1.5mm Neuro$135
- Neuro Plating System$106
How this compares
$155,183 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 302 neurological 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 neurological surgery in Chicago
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Richard FesslerChicago$910K
- John OtooleChicago$593K
- Fady CharbelChicago$507K
- Issam AwadChicago$266K
- Mohamad BydonChicago$163K
- Konstantin SlavinChicago$153K
- Joshua RosenowChicago$152K
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.