Hamad Farhat, MD
Neurological Surgery · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1861724064
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 47 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 30.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $49,288, 9.6 times the $5,108 reported in 2019. Among neurological 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 386 payments — averaging $363.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$43K
- Penumbra, Inc.$27K
- Rapid Medical Ltd$17K
- Qapel Medical Inc$17K
- Microvention, Inc.$6K
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$5K
- plus $25K from 41 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $17,891 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Augmedics Inc.$107K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$68,30249%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,40013%
- Travel & lodging$21,14115%
- Food & beverage$32,44623%
- Gifts$40%
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.
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.
- EMBOGUARD$36,051
- Smart Coil$20,568
- TIGERTRIEVER 17 REVASCULARIZATION DEVICE$16,664
- COMANECI 17$16,664
- TRUFILL$5,637
- CEREPAK UNIFORM$5,625
- Embotrap$5,257
- Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$5,024
- Magellan$4,035
- Penumbra System$3,252
- LC BEAD$2,400
- LVIS$1,636
- HydroSoft 3D$1,397
- Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$1,296
- Influx$1,198
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$865
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$856
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$856
- RED 72$842
- Excelsius Robotics System$840
How this compares
$140,293 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 302 neurological 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.
Other neurological surgery in Oak Lawn
- Beejal AminOak Lawn$23K
- Michael YoungOak Lawn$22K
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Russell NockelsArlington Heights$1.4M
- Bruce FrankelSpringfield$1.3M
- Richard FesslerChicago$910K
- Julian BailesEvanston$666K
- John OtooleChicago$593K
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.