Brian Forsythe, MD
Sports Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1770557811
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $1,876,421 of the $1,899,343 with a category attached, or 98.8%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 97.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,858,568 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $522 in 2025. 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 40 payments — averaging $47,484 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1.9M
- Medwest Associates$36K
- Stryker$4K
- Smith+Nephew$229
- Linvatec Corporation$152
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$141
- plus $151 from 5 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $19,172 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.
- Arthrex$104K
- Stryker$30K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,7110%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,0711%
- Food & beverage$2,1400%
- Other$1,876,42199%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $1,858,351 |
| Medwest Associates | 2 | $36,142 |
| Stryker | 21 | $4,178 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $229 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $152 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Amgen | 3 | $71 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Low Profile Reamer$1,858,351
- FLEXIBLE GUIDE PIN (STRYKER ACL VERSITOMIC)$2,711
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$324
- NA$264
- NANOTACK FLEX$173
- HIPCHECK$153
- OVOMotion$141
- RevoMotion$141
- IVS - NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$136
- BioBrace 23mm$118
How this compares
$1,899,343 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 55 | $631 |
| Meloxicam | 53 | $271 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 70 | $134 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Chicago
- Gregory NicholsonChicago$6.7M
- Grant GarriguesChicago$2.5M
- Brian ColeChicago$2.1M
- Nikhil VermaChicago$647K
- Shane NhoChicago$521K
- Vehniah TjongChicago$173K
- Aravind AthivirahamChicago$138K
- 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.