Gunnar Andersson
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1154309110
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $194,584 of the $214,587 with a category attached, or 90.7%. Orthofix Medical, Inc. accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $54,503 and has fallen 90.1% since, to $5,371 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 147 payments — averaging $1459.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$209K
- Spineart USA Inc$4K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$2K
Across 20 payments — averaging $3469.15 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.
- Spineart SA$33K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$22K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$14K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,2001%
- Consulting fees$194,58491%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,9784%
- Travel & lodging$9,5564%
- Food & beverage$2690%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 113 | $208,746 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 10 | $3,641 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 24 | $2,200 |
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.
- M6-C$122,388
- M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc$85,584
- NANOSS ABGS FAMILY$819
- PILLAR SA$650
- NEWBRIDGE$145
How this compares
$214,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chicago
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
- Wellington HsuChicago$1.7M
- Ken YamaguchiChicago$1.7M
- Guido MarraChicago$1.2M
- Hue LuuChicago$1.1M
- Alpesh PatelChicago$917K
- Samuel StulbergChicago$852K
- Richard BergerChicago$618K
- Ari KazChicago$343K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.