Daniel Katz, MD
Vascular Surgery · Aurora, ILNPI 1013919737
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 49 payments — averaging $95.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Cook Incorporated$1K
- Argon Medical Devices, Inc.$255
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$177
- Cook Medical LLC$124
- Surmodics, Inc.$117
- plus $285 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00021%
- Travel & lodging$82218%
- Food & beverage$2,85261%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 30 | $2,666 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $1,050 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $255 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $177 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $124 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 3 | $117 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $32 |
| Stryker | 1 | $25 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Arjo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
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.
- GUNTHER TULIP$1,000
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$924
- OPTION$255
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$177
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$161
- EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$159
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$151
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$147
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$144
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$126
How this compares
$4,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 25 | $357 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Aurora
- Sapan DesaiArlington Heights$1.4M
- Ross MilnerChicago$1.3M
- Nabeel RanaPeoria$934K
- Atif BaqaiPark Ridge$613K
- Trissa BabrowskiChicago$344K
- Tejas ShahDowners Grove$213K
- Carlos BecharaMaywood$199K
- Dhiren PatelSpringfield$121K
- George PontikisNaperville$117K
- Heron RodriguezChicago$110K
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.