Has Dalip Pelinkovic, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $139,424 in general payments to Dalip Pelinkovic, MD across 251 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dalip Pelinkovic, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dalip Pelinkovic, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dalip Pelinkovic, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Naperville, ILNPI 1043436819

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $119,450 of the $139,424 with a category attached, or 85.7%. CTL Medical Corporation accounts for 71.7% of it on its own, with 42 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $52,006 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $817 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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.

$139,424in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 251 payments — averaging $555.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

CTL Medical Corporation$100K
Stryker$25K
Arthrex$4K
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$2K
Cerapedics Inc.$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
plus $5K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$119,45086%
Travel & lodging$10,2957%
Food & beverage$7,1585%
Education$2,5212%

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
CTL Medical Corporation	38	$99,901
Stryker	87	$24,612
Arthrex	4	$3,780
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	19	$2,476
Cerapedics Inc.	7	$2,253
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	7	$1,117
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	3	$882
Medwest Associates	1	$780
Johnson & Johnson	22	$532
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$348
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$274
Catalyst Orthoscience	2	$267
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	2	$215
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	2	$200
Si-bone, Inc.	6	$191
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	6	$149
Oak Med, Inc.	1	$143
Boston Scientific	3	$143
Terumo BCT, Inc.	1	$141
Nevro Corp.	1	$136
Abbott	2	$128
Globus Medical(2 entities)	3	$93
DJO, LLC	2	$77
Nanohive Medical LLC	1	$64
Amgen(2 entities)	2	$54
Zimmer Biomet	3	$44
Vertex	2	$41
Kerecis Limited	1	$38
CPM Medical Consultants, LLC	1	$32
Curiteva, Inc.	1	$31
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$30
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$29
Bioventus LLC	1	$26
Hospira, Inc.	2	$25
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	1	$25
Vericel Corporation	1	$25
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$23
Convatec Inc.	1	$19
AstraZeneca	1	$19
Next Science LLC	1	$18
ERMI LLC	1	$17
Argentum Medical	1	$14
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$13

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.

Spinal$60,000
EVEREST MI$16,000
ALEUTIAN TLIF MI$16,000
EVEREST XT$16,000
EXPANDABLE CAGE$9,000
ES2$7,000
LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$7,000
SERRATO$3,000
NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$2,949
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$2,084
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$2,000
Intracept$1,921
FORTILINK-TC TIPLUS$1,386
STREAMLINE TL SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$1,386
STREAMLINE* OCT OCCIPITO-CERVICO-THORACIC SYSTEM$1,386
ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$1,386
MagnetOs$426
Magellan$274
STREAMLINE MIS SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$241
Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$228

How this compares

$139,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$136,172

Medicare patients

252

Services billed

2,154

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	23	$337
Tramadol Hcl	19	$77
Meloxicam	18	$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Naperville

Islam ElboghdadyNaperville$155K
Kenneth SandersNaperville$139K
Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M

See the full list for Illinois →

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.

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