Christopher Kapp, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Chicago, ILNPI 1790027902
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (59.9%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pulmonary disease clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 110 payments — averaging $364.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$32K
- Cook Incorporated$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- AstraZeneca$732
- ERBE USA Inc$651
- Boston Scientific$456
- plus $909 from 8 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $21,416 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.
- Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH$64K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,86820%
- Travel & lodging$2,5266%
- Food & beverage$5,70114%
- Education$24,00060%
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 | 76 | $32,410 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $3,868 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $1,069 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $732 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 6 | $651 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $456 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $242 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $137 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 2 | $106 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $100 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $89 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| BD | 1 | $51 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$30,773
- Melker$3,868
- Monarch Platform$1,026
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$388
- APC2$385
- CRYO$385
- IMFINZI$242
- ERBE$198
- VIO 300 D$195
- VVIO 300 D$190
- PleurX$184
- Photofrin$137
- ILLUMISITE$100
How this compares
$40,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 539 pulmonary disease 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 pulmonary disease in Chicago
- Douglas HogarthChicago$2.9M
- Steven WhiteChicago$970K
- Momen WahidiChicago$779K
- Septimiu MurguChicago$633K
- Ayodeji AdegunsoyeChicago$561K
- Ravi KalhanChicago$375K
- Brian GaribaldiChicago$356K
- Manu JainChicago$187K
- Richard WunderinkChicago$178K
- Rade TomicChicago$70K
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.