Elizabeth Puscheck
Reproductive Endocrinology · Hoffman Estates, ILNPI 1609813195
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 46 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. at 30.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $652 and has fallen 59.8% since, to $262 in 2025.
Across 46 payments — averaging $35.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$498
- Covidien LP$249
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$183
- AbbVie$111
- Samsung HME America, Inc.$103
- Organon$91
- plus $392 from 11 others
Across 36 payments — averaging $1800.42 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.
- Bayer$41K
- AbbVie$24K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,628100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 21 | $498 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $249 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $183 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $111 |
| Samsung HME America, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Organon | 3 | $91 |
| Galen US Inc | 1 | $82 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $75 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $62 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Hamilton Thorne, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $18 |
| Ferring International Pharmascience Center US | 1 | $17 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, 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.
How this compares
$1,628 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 62 reproductive endocrinology providers in Illinois.
Other reproductive endocrinology in Hoffman Estates
- Sigal KlipsteinHoffman Estates$25K
- Vishvanath KarandeHoffman Estates$17K
- Lisa ShandleyHoffman Estates$2K
- Thanh LuuHoffman Estates$607
- Reena JabamoniHoffman Estates$379
- Eve FeinbergChicago$117K
- Angeline BeltsosChicago$96K
- Roohi NajeemuddinChicago$88K
- Barbara SoltesChicago$25K
- Ilan Tur-KaspaChicago$21K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.