Brian Cole, MD
Sports Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1659350379
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 810 payments — averaging $3766.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$1.9M
- Aesculap Biologics, LLC$335K
- Zimmer Biomet$235K
- Ossio LTD$152K
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$126K
- DJO, LLC$73K
- plus $208K from 34 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $25,500 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.
- Zimmer Biomet$25K
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 | 521 | $1,923,348 |
| Aesculap Biologics, LLC | 57 | $334,822 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $234,501 |
| Ossio LTD | 7 | $151,806 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $125,936 |
| DJO, LLC | 60 | $72,651 |
| Novartis | 8 | $51,771 |
| Vericel Corporation | 45 | $35,734 |
| Bioventus LLC | 12 | $25,449 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $18,887 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 6 | $14,207 |
| Acumed LLC | 12 | $13,375 |
| Brixton Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $12,166 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 6 | $9,590 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $5,489 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 2 | $5,250 |
| Moximed, Inc | 2 | $4,250 |
| Ossio Inc | 6 | $3,435 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $2,013 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $2,000 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $1,352 |
| Stryker | 7 | $687 |
| Amgen | 1 | $652 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $250 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $244 |
| Summit Surgical Corp. | 1 | $218 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Sportstek Medical, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $121 |
| Pavmed Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $95 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Team 1, LLC | 1 | $72 |
| Goode Surgical Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Active Medical, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$3,051,197 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$3.1M
- Brian ForsytheChicago$2M
- Nikhil VermaChicago$1M
- Shane NhoChicago$668K
- Adam YankeChicago$388K
- Vehniah TjongChicago$190K
- Aravind AthivirahamChicago$138K
- Nicholas WeberChicago$110K
- Prakash JayabalanChicago$78K
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.