Frank Liao, MD
Surgery · Hoffman Estates, ILNPI 1912032988
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,751 and has fallen 78.3% since, to $597 in 2025.
Across 92 payments — averaging $52.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Kerecis Limited$390
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$221
- Smith+Nephew$217
- Medtronic$182
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$141
- plus $1K from 21 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $61.78 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.
- Argenx US, Inc.$1K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,13944%
- Food & beverage$2,72056%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 16 | $2,672 |
| Kerecis Limited | 7 | $390 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $221 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $217 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $182 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 6 | $141 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $113 |
| Vertex | 4 | $89 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $79 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $70 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $67 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $41 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Abbott | 2 | $36 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $24 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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
$4,859 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 98 | $744 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Hoffman Estates
- Jonathan WallaceHoffman Estates$217K
- Stephen GrabowskiHoffman Estates$67K
- Jaishankar RamanBurr Ridge$1.6M
- Reza GamagamiNew Lenox$1.2M
- Francesco BiancoChicago$1M
- Mark KeldahlChicago$765K
- Barry RosenBarrington$443K
- Douglas JonesChampaign$425K
- Rami LutfiChicago$411K
- Paul VanaDowners Grove$368K
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.