Andrea Romano, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Chicago, ILNPI 1164704201
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,500 of the $6,718 with a category attached, or 81.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,127 and has fallen 90.7% since, to $290 in 2025.
Across 21 payments — averaging $319.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Kerecis Limited$293
- Baxter Healthcare$152
- Teleflex LLC$142
- Davol Inc.$138
- Vertex$119
- plus $280 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,21818%
- Education$5,50082%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $5,593 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $293 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $152 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $142 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Vertex | 1 | $119 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Merck | 1 | $101 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $25 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $23 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $1 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,173
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$293
- QuikClot$142
- Phasix Mesh$138
- STARLING SYSTEM$137
- JOURNAVX$119
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$105
- ZERBAXA$101
How this compares
$6,718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 63 surgical critical care 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 surgical critical care in Chicago
- Alexander SauperChicago$41K
- Abigail TarboxChicago$14K
- Khafra Garcia HenryChicago$13K
- Kenneth WilsonChicago$5K
- Selwyn RogersChicago$5K
- David HamptonChicago$4K
- Priya PrakashChicago$2K
- Blake PlattChicago$2K
- Joseph PoslusznyChicago$1K
- Brian WilliamsChicago$1K
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.