RxDoctor Payments Data

Etan Sugarman, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Des Plaines, ILNPI 1235426610

Payments from drug & device makers

$26,009in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 142 payments — averaging $183.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Arthrex$6K
  • Arcuro Medical Inc$6K
  • Smith+Nephew$5K
  • Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$5K
  • Medwest Associates$1K
  • Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$878
  • plus $2K from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3001%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,12512%
  • Travel & lodging$8,77634%
  • Food & beverage$7,32828%
  • Education$6,48025%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Arthrex63$6,408
Arcuro Medical Inc7$5,902
Smith+Nephew35$4,998
Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.10$4,556
Medwest Associates4$1,250
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.2$878
Suvon Surgical LLC3$370
Oak Med, Inc.1$348
Bioventus LLC3$348
Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.1$289
Stryker5$246
Bodycad USA Corp1$137
Vericel Corporation3$130
Globus Medical1$95
Acumed LLC2$38
Naviswiss, Inc.1$17

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

$26,009 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$23,445
Medicare patients
77
Services billed
395

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.

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