Christopher Ross, MD
Emergency Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1346355575
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $92,740 of the $131,505 with a category attached, or 70.5%. Teleflex LLC accounts for 95.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $72,530 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $123 in 2025. Among emergency 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 122 payments — averaging $1077.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$126K
- Arrow International, Inc.$4K
- Teleflex Medical Trading (shanghai) Co., Ltd.$2K
- AbbVie$204
- Abiomed$166
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$123
- plus $30 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,8126%
- Speaking & faculty fees$92,74071%
- Travel & lodging$27,76921%
- Food & beverage$3,1842%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teleflex LLC | 110 | $125,565 |
| Arrow International, Inc. | 3 | $3,555 |
| Teleflex Medical Trading (shanghai) Co., Ltd. | 1 | $1,862 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $204 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $166 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $123 |
| Teleflex Medical Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
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.
- EPIDURALS - ARROW & RUSCH BRANDS$86,252
- EZ-IO - ARROW$23,909
- EZ-IO NEEDLES$11,358
- AIRWAY MANAGEMENT - LMA, RUSCH & TELEFLEX BRANDS$6,469
- CVC - Arrow$1,225
- DALVANCE$125
- EXPAREL$123
- Impella$114
How this compares
$131,505 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,434 emergency 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 emergency medicine in Chicago
- Erik KulstadChicago$109K
- Adam GoodcoffChicago$98K
- Pratik MehtaChicago$74K
- Janet LinChicago$66K
- Yanina Purim Shem TovChicago$60K
- Robert TurelliChicago$51K
- Michael KurzChicago$48K
- Theodore KoutouzisChicago$17K
- Colin McCloskeyChicago$13K
- Kimberly StanfordChicago$10K
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.