Eric Perez, MD
Hand Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1972918142
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $35,000 of the $42,043 with a category attached, or 83.2%. Acumed LLC accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $36,745 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $43 in 2025. Among hand 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.
Across 26 payments — averaging $1617.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$35K
- Arthrex$4K
- CDC Medical LLC$1K
- Great Lakes Orthopedics$756
- Medwest Associates$520
- Zimmer Biomet$275
- plus $203 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$35,00083%
- Travel & lodging$1,1803%
- Food & beverage$7172%
- Education$5,14612%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $35,000 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $4,263 |
| CDC Medical LLC | 1 | $1,026 |
| Great Lakes Orthopedics | 3 | $756 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $520 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $275 |
| Stryker | 2 | $100 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 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.
- ROSA$275
- mymobility Platform$150
- Persona$125
- MyMobility$125
How this compares
$42,043 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 121 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 30 | $753 |
| Celecoxib | 33 | $386 |
| Meloxicam | 22 | $66 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $56 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 19 | $37 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Chicago
- Mark CohenChicago$78K
- Jeffrey StepanChicago$71K
- John FernandezChicago$29K
- Peter OstergaardChicago$15K
- Daniel HongChicago$12K
- Grigory GershkovichChicago$8K
- Kevin ChenChicago$6K
- James DieterichChicago$5K
- Cristina GraphiaChicago$4K
- William VitelloChicago$3K
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.