Christopher Skelly
Vascular Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1225193063
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $11,760 of the $12,162 with a category attached, or 96.7%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 98.1% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $11,927 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $22 in 2023.
Across 12 payments — averaging $1013.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$12K
- Cvrx, Inc.$213
- Mindray DS USA, Inc.$22
Across 24 payments — averaging $1264.58 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.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$30K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,76097%
- Food & beverage$4023%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $11,927 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $213 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
How this compares
$12,162 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 170 vascular surgery 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 vascular surgery in Chicago
- Ross MilnerChicago$1.3M
- Trissa BabrowskiChicago$292K
- Heron RodriguezChicago$105K
- Mark EskandariChicago$51K
- Calvin ChaoChicago$39K
- Clayton BrinsterChicago$34K
- Neel MansukhaniChicago$28K
- Matthew ChiaChicago$25K
- Margaret ReillyChicago$23K
- Courtney FurloughChicago$23K
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.