Christopher Molvar, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1942533138
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $708,531 of the $850,185 with a category attached, or 83.3%. Boston Scientific accounts for 87.1% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $354,277, more than ten times the $17,681 reported in 2019. Among vascular & interventional radiology 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 487 payments — averaging $1745.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$740K
- Cook Incorporated$79K
- Biocompatibles, Inc.$15K
- Medtronic$3K
- Argon Medical Devices, Inc.$3K
- Cook Medical LLC$3K
- plus $6K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60,7307%
- Speaking & faculty fees$708,53183%
- Travel & lodging$68,6378%
- Food & beverage$12,2881%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 387 | $740,297 |
| Cook Incorporated | 25 | $78,598 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 8 | $15,317 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $3,242 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 9 | $3,239 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 24 | $3,064 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $3,000 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $1,050 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $450 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $411 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $360 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $246 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| BD | 2 | $58 |
| Thrombolex, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $34 |
| Stryker | 1 | $27 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $15 |
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.
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 7.0 GBq (US Commercial)$589,368
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$108,588
- Rosch-Uchida$49,845
- Tornado$23,233
- THERASPHERE-BIO$15,182
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$11,259
- Cook$6,675
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$4,974
- GENERAL - IO ABLATION$4,963
- FlowTriever$3,000
- ClotTriever$3,000
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$2,625
- CLEANER$1,850
- THERASPHERE$1,650
- GUNTHER TULIP$1,200
- Clot Management$900
- MO.MA ULTRA$860
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$453
- Product in Development$450
- AMPLATZ GOOSE NECK$432
How this compares
$850,185 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 197 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Illinois.
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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 vascular & interventional radiology in Chicago
- Riad SalemChicago$2.3M
- Kush DesaiChicago$1M
- Robert LewandowskiChicago$954K
- Sreekumar MadasseryChicago$459K
- Bulent ArslanChicago$300K
- Sameer AnsariChicago$161K
- Ahsun RiazChicago$127K
- Ramona GuptaChicago$72K
- Scott ResnickChicago$38K
- Erica AlexanderChicago$32K
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.