Cristina Ventura
Nurse Practitioner · Skokie, ILNPI 1043676067
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,902 of the $2,371 with a category attached, or 80.2%. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among nurse practitioner 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 21 payments — averaging $112.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$471
- Intuitive Surgical$469
- Abbott$185
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$177
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$168
- Boston Scientific$140
- plus $761 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$46920%
- Food & beverage$1,90280%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $471 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $469 |
| Abbott | 1 | $185 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $168 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $140 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $133 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $124 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $123 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $48 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $44 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
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
$2,371 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,869 nurse practitioner 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 nurse practitioner in Skokie
- Deepa VallikatWest Dundee$332K
- Maria MalotoNaperville$135K
- Valerie LaroyOak Lawn$112K
- Jennifer LiebChampaign$109K
- Tanya MungerRockford$106K
- Erika VuckoChicago$76K
- Yvonna OldakerFlossmoor$74K
- Heather PiercePekin$72K
- Dara McKinleyEvanston$66K
- Kristine WarnesNaperville$66K
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.