Dragan Gastevski, MD
Anesthesiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1902112840
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $196,120 of the $240,396 with a category attached, or 81.6%. Boston Scientific accounts for 91.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $56,293 and has fallen 81.0% since, to $10,719 in 2025. Among anesthesiology 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 350 payments — averaging $686.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$220K
- Avanos Medical$18K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$274
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$150
- Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.$103
- plus $417 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,2859%
- Speaking & faculty fees$196,12082%
- Travel & lodging$13,0635%
- Food & beverage$8,9284%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 304 | $219,547 |
| Avanos Medical | 9 | $18,119 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 9 | $1,786 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $274 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 6 | $103 |
| Stryker | 1 | $77 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $37 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $27 |
| Abbott | 1 | $27 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$67,097
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$54,751
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$37,587
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$14,004
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$12,340
- GENERATOR$10,761
- COOLIEF* COOLED RADIOFREQUENCY$5,000
- SUPERION$2,700
- COOLIEF$2,295
- Superion ISS$1,641
- GENERAL DBS$151
- ARTISAN$146
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$131
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$114
How this compares
$240,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,980 anesthesiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 58 | $328 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $184 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $173 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 47 | $118 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $100 |
| Alprazolam | 40 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other anesthesiology in Chicago
- Nishant ShahChicago$2.1M
- Tolga SuvarChicago$303K
- Rushad MarfatiaChicago$67K
- Kurosh TakhtehchianChicago$61K
- Magdalena AnitescuChicago$46K
- Joshua PanChicago$44K
- Sanup PathakChicago$42K
- Jason RossChicago$33K
- Paul HertzChicago$29K
- Charles HogueChicago$24K
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.