Craig della Valle
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1780663690
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,183,017 of the $2,351,669 with a category attached, or 92.8%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 49.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $581,619, 2.9 times the $201,219 reported in 2019. Among adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery 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 258 payments — averaging $9115.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1.2M
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$586K
- Smith+Nephew$533K
- Medwest Associates$36K
- Davol Inc.$13K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$9K
- plus $16K from 8 others
Across 90 payments — averaging $2473.40 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.
- Smith+Nephew$100K
- Stryker$68K
- Zimmer Biomet$54K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,183,01793%
- Consulting fees$120,5515%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,2311%
- Travel & lodging$1,3730%
- Food & beverage$3,4270%
- Other$18,0711%
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 | 120 | $1,158,781 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 53 | $585,705 |
| Smith+Nephew | 48 | $533,247 |
| Medwest Associates | 2 | $36,142 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $12,661 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 18 | $9,428 |
| Signature Orthopaedics USA Corp | 1 | $9,000 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $3,200 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $3,076 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $192 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| BD | 1 | $84 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 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.
- Persona$794,093
- PINNACLE$539,204
- Legion$235,755
- Persona Partial Knee System$226,646
- REDAPT$196,999
- Legion Revision$115,285
- LEGION TKS$99,939
- Vanguard$60,574
- Vanguard XP$18,755
- Vanguard Complete Knee Solution$10,003
- OXFORD PARTIAL KNEE$8,438
- ATTUNE$7,185
- VISTASEAL$2,925
- ETHICON$2,925
- Oxford$1,125
- EMPHASYS$547
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$500
- Velys$240
- GMK Sphere Revision System$151
- ARISTA$131
How this compares
$2,351,669 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 67 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 115 | $2,988 |
| Meloxicam | 236 | $631 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 67 | $429 |
| Gabapentin | 57 | $427 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 74 | $358 |
| Methylprednisolone | 47 | $270 |
| Amoxicillin | 125 | $211 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 22 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Chicago
- Denis NamChicago$3.2M
- Hany BedairChicago$1.1M
- Linda SuleimanChicago$898K
- Tad GerlingerChicago$642K
- Henry FinnChicago$523K
- Vasili KarasChicago$264K
- Brett LevineChicago$250K
- Sara WallaceChicago$148K
- Joshua JacobsChicago$72K
- William ThomasChicago$27K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.