Heron Rodriguez, MD
Vascular Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1003883778
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $76,163 of the $105,382 with a category attached, or 72.3%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 98.0% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $51,951 and has fallen 73.7% since, to $13,665 in 2025. Among vascular surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 97 payments — averaging $1086.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$103K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$122
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$63
- Abbott$47
Across 1 payment — averaging $4712.50 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.
- Endologix LLC$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$76,16372%
- Speaking & faculty fees$23,94023%
- Travel & lodging$2,1412%
- Food & beverage$3,1393%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 83 | $103,317 |
| Globus Medical | 10 | $1,834 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $122 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Abbott | 2 | $47 |
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.
- GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$76,046
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$25,303
- C3 Delivery System$24,083
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$24,083
- GORE VIATORR TIPS Endoprosthesis$15,390
- GORE CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder$14,820
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$14,077
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$12,750
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$8,550
- ALIF$1,361
- Product in Development$1,140
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$288
- XLIF$138
- Da Vinci Surgical System$122
How this compares
$105,382 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 170 vascular 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 vascular surgery in Chicago
- Ross MilnerChicago$1.3M
- Trissa BabrowskiChicago$292K
- Mark EskandariChicago$51K
- Calvin ChaoChicago$39K
- Clayton BrinsterChicago$34K
- Neel MansukhaniChicago$28K
- Matthew ChiaChicago$25K
- Margaret ReillyChicago$23K
- Courtney FurloughChicago$23K
- Andrew RusseauChicago$23K
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.