Fady Charbel
Neurological Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1700899721
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (59.1%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Transonic Systems Inc. accounts for 81.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $88,190 and has fallen 53.4% since, to $41,059 in 2025. Among neurological 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 88 payments — averaging $5764.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Transonic Systems Inc.$413K
- Aesculap, Inc.$71K
- Stryker$20K
- Aesculap AG$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$653
- Medtronic$335
- plus $317 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$299,61359%
- Consulting fees$72,06614%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,6700%
- Travel & lodging$131,26826%
- Food & beverage$2,6631%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Transonic Systems Inc. | 15 | $412,892 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 32 | $71,430 |
| Stryker | 26 | $19,983 |
| Aesculap AG | 1 | $1,670 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $653 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $335 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $153 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Mizuho America, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Clearpoint Neuro, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
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.
- AESCULAP$40,509
- CORE$17,325
- AEOS$13,974
- N/A$1,620
- SONOPET IQ$450
- SPETZLER-MALIS$450
- Neuro Plating System$298
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$272
- MazorX - Renaissance$266
- DURAMATRIX$170
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY DURAL SEALANT$170
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$136
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$136
- 1.5mm Neuro$135
- NO APPLICABLE MARKETED PRODUCT NAME$132
- NONE$100
How this compares
$507,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 302 neurological surgery providers in Illinois.
Other neurological surgery in Chicago
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Richard FesslerChicago$910K
- John OtooleChicago$593K
- Issam AwadChicago$266K
- Mohamad BydonChicago$163K
- Ali AlarajChicago$155K
- Konstantin SlavinChicago$153K
- Joshua RosenowChicago$152K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.