George Schuster
Urology · Elk Grove Village, ILNPI 1174673255
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.9% of the total across 67 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $626 and has fallen 80.2% since, to $124 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $2,058.
Across 67 payments — averaging $21.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$306
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$160
- Medtronic$115
- Bayer$103
- Olympus America Inc.$79
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$78
- plus $577 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,31793%
- Education$1007%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 14 | $306 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $160 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $115 |
| Bayer | 6 | $103 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Coloplast | 4 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $58 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 2 | $43 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $40 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Dentsply IH Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $24 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,417 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 550 urology providers in Illinois.
Other urology in Elk Grove Village
- Mark BrandtPark Ridge$1.3M
- Aaron BergerChicago Ridge$583K
- Gary SteinbergChicago$529K
- Simone CrivellaroChicago$526K
- Brian HelfandChicago$517K
- Ashley RossChicago$404K
- Kevin McVarySpringfield$372K
- Richard HarrisMelrose Park$363K
- Amy KrambeckChicago$356K
- Kevin ZornChicago$274K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.