George Branovacki, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Orland Park, ILNPI 1083661086
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $23,513 of the $29,692 with a category attached, or 79.2%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 62.1% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $18,872 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $735 in 2025.
Across 110 payments — averaging $269.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$18K
- Naviswiss, Inc.$6K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$962
- Amgen$419
- Osteoremedies, LLC$174
- plus $619 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,51379%
- Travel & lodging$3,33911%
- Food & beverage$2,3608%
- Education$4812%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 28 | $18,438 |
| Naviswiss, Inc. | 7 | $6,098 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $2,981 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $962 |
| Amgen | 43 | $419 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $174 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 1 | $123 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $99 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $94 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 2 | $83 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $54 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $50 |
| Abbott | 1 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $16 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Naviswiss Knee System$5,000
- Tandem$4,631
- SL-PLUS$4,550
- SL-PLUS MIA$4,550
- Naviswiss Hip/Knee Systems$1,000
- Oxford$481
- Tincture of Benzoin$295
- BlastX$174
- Xperience$174
- Legion Hinge$147
- Alloclassic Zweymuller$135
- Legion Revision$119
- POLAR3$119
How this compares
$29,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 844 orthopaedic 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 | 365 | $9,283 |
| Naproxen | 337 | $1,951 |
| Celecoxib | 75 | $1,518 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 57 | $981 |
| Meloxicam | 251 | $788 |
| Cephalexin | 199 | $649 |
| Nabumetone | 40 | $338 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 38 | $142 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 41 | $137 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $107 |
| Ibuprofen | 17 | $103 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Orland Park
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
- Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
- David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M
- Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
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.