Antone Tatooles, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1477548170
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (42.1%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 38.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $9,797 and has fallen 89.5% since, to $1,026 in 2025.
Across 96 payments — averaging $240.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$9K
- Abbott$6K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$4K
- Abiomed$2K
- Jenavalve Technology, Inc.$960
- Edwards Lifesciences$527
- plus $554 from 4 others
Across 125 payments — averaging $1805.56 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.
- Abbott$132K
- Medtronic$56K
- Briohealth Solutions, Inc.$37K
- Edwards Lifesciences$300
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,73242%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,22018%
- Travel & lodging$4,62620%
- Food & beverage$4,45219%
- Entertainment$770%
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) | 33 | $8,863 |
| Abbott | 34 | $6,240 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $4,291 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $1,671 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 1 | $960 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $527 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 6 | $260 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $156 |
| Opsens Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
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.
- HeartWare HVAD$5,114
- Tandem Life Kit$4,220
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$3,773
- Impella$1,567
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,282
- Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve$189
- APOLLOTM$172
- KONECT RESILIA$166
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$146
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$144
- CoreValve Evolut$138
- SavvyWire$127
- PASCAL$104
How this compares
$23,107 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Oak Lawn
- Deborah TabachnickOak Lawn$13K
- Allison BeckettOak Lawn$12K
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Andrew ArndtWinfield$206K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
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.