George Macrinici, MD
Pain Medicine · Arlington Heights, ILNPI 1659534030
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,180 of the $13,758 with a category attached, or 88.5%. Abbott accounts for 69.4% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,707 and has fallen 74.1% since, to $959 in 2025.
Across 420 payments — averaging $32.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$10K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$998
- Medtronic$791
- Boston Scientific$453
- AbbVie$323
- plus $520 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,57811%
- Food & beverage$12,18089%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 324 | $9,545 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 10 | $1,128 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 16 | $998 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 20 | $791 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $453 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $323 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $117 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $104 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Saol Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$2,199
- Intracept$2,008
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$915
- Proclaim IPG$717
- ETERNA$646
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$604
- Axium$569
- Axium Sheath Braided DRG$415
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$119
- DYSPORT$117
- Prodigy Family of SCS IPGs$113
- LIORESAL$109
- Pacel Bipolar Pacing Catheter$106
- Intracept RF Probe$105
How this compares
$13,758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 233 pain medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 864 | $9,515 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 385 | $8,571 |
| Pregabalin | 349 | $5,829 |
| Fentanyl | 13 | $3,848 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 45 | $2,978 |
| Baclofen | 70 | $1,994 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 253 | $1,550 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 79 | $971 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $706 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 47 | $588 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 12 | $536 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 40 | $336 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $213 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $211 |
| Meloxicam | 41 | $140 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Arlington Heights
- Yuriy BukhaloArlington Heights$13K
- Paul MarsigliaArlington Heights$12K
- Mohammad AhsanArlington Heights$9K
- Demetrios LouisArlington Heights$8K
- Ricardo VallejoBloomington$2.3M
- David DickersonEvanston$558K
- Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
- Steven CohenChicago$217K
- Albert SinghQuincy$212K
- Nirav ShahSkokie$137K
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.