Barry Wenig, MD
Otolaryngology · Chicago, ILNPI 1447356126
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,500 of the $6,227 with a category attached, or 72.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 74.8% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,010 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $557 in 2025.
Across 22 payments — averaging $283.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Medtronic$489
- Optinose US, Inc.$378
- Stryker$219
- Neurent Medical Limited$172
- Vector Surgical, LLC$150
- plus $163 from 3 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $428.59 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.
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$857
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1502%
- Food & beverage$1,57725%
- Education$4,50072%
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 | 5 | $4,656 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $489 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 3 | $378 |
| Stryker | 4 | $219 |
| Neurent Medical Limited | 1 | $172 |
| Vector Surgical, LLC | 1 | $150 |
| Surgical Theater. Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| GSK | 1 | $48 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$6,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 390 otolaryngology 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 otolaryngology in Chicago
- David ConleyChicago$630K
- Jayant PintoChicago$628K
- Robert KernChicago$610K
- Victoria LeeChicago$86K
- Louis PortugalChicago$68K
- Dean ToriumiChicago$63K
- Monica PatadiaChicago$56K
- Phillip LosavioChicago$53K
- Fuad BaroodyChicago$46K
- Bruce TanChicago$44K
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.