Eric Hungness, MD
Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1336193283
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $78,619 of the $126,426 with a category attached, or 62.2%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 55.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $41,517 and has fallen 75.0% since, to $10,397 in 2025. Among surgery 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 122 payments — averaging $1036.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$71K
- Cook Incorporated$20K
- Intuitive Surgical$20K
- Baxter Healthcare$14K
- Olympus America Inc.$858
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$481
- plus $485 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$30,78824%
- Speaking & faculty fees$78,61962%
- Travel & lodging$6,5175%
- Food & beverage$2,0022%
- Education$8,5007%
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 | 57 | $70,595 |
| Cook Incorporated | 8 | $20,265 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 31 | $19,998 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 14 | $13,744 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $858 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $481 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $351 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $134 |
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.
- SPYGLASS$34,261
- Cook Medical CBDE$20,475
- SpyGlass Discover$18,224
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$11,149
- Da Vinci Surgical System$10,683
- DAVINCI XI$8,500
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$7,169
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$6,320
- No Related Product$2,550
- TISSEEL$2,359
- ENCORE$850
- SPYBITE$850
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$519
- SPYSCOPE$425
- CoolSeal Generator$400
- LINX Reflux Management System$113
How this compares
$126,426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,180 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.
Other surgery in Chicago
- Francesco BiancoChicago$1M
- Mark KeldahlChicago$765K
- Rami LutfiChicago$411K
- Jonah StulbergChicago$209K
- Julie DunderdaleChicago$205K
- Shabirhusain AbadinChicago$153K
- Richard ZhuChicago$128K
- Kyle MuellerChicago$117K
- Benjamin JohnsonChicago$115K
- Vivek PrachandChicago$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.