Aravind Athiviraham, MD
Sports Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1801101209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (57.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 85.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $46,014, 3.9 times the $11,892 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 255 payments — averaging $540.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$118K
- Medwest Associates$9K
- DJO, LLC$9K
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$388
- Stryker$306
- Vericel Corporation$178
- plus $293 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,75016%
- Speaking & faculty fees$79,82558%
- Grants$9,3747%
- Travel & lodging$12,9949%
- Food & beverage$5,3944%
- Education$8,4266%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 219 | $117,751 |
| Medwest Associates | 17 | $9,474 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $9,374 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 5 | $388 |
| Stryker | 6 | $306 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $178 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $154 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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
$137,763 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 233 sports medicine 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 sports medicine in Chicago
- Gregory NicholsonChicago$6.7M
- Grant GarriguesChicago$2.5M
- Brian ColeChicago$2.1M
- Brian ForsytheChicago$1.9M
- Nikhil VermaChicago$647K
- Shane NhoChicago$521K
- Vehniah TjongChicago$173K
- Adam YankeChicago$132K
- Nicholas TrasoliniChicago$67K
- Nicholas LemmeChicago$49K
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.