Has James Bresch, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $77,797 in general payments to James Bresch, MD across 73 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean James Bresch, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about James Bresch, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

James Bresch, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Park Ridge, ILNPI 1639279110

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (53.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 97.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $32,572 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $59 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.

$77,797in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $1065.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$76K
Catalyst Orthoscience$2K
Innovation Technologies Inc$171
Stryker$73
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$73
Orthosensor Inc.$18
plus $14 from 1 others

$45,840in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $1763.08 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.

Smith+Nephew$46K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$25,49833%
Speaking & faculty fees$41,26353%
Travel & lodging$8,57411%
Food & beverage$2,4623%

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
Smith+Nephew	56	$75,509
Catalyst Orthoscience	7	$1,939
Innovation Technologies Inc	3	$171
Stryker	1	$73
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$73
Orthosensor Inc.	1	$18
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$14

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

$77,797 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$350,329

Medicare patients

529

Services billed

15,864

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
Celecoxib	39	$780
Diclofenac Sodium	14	$217
Amoxicillin	30	$30
Cephalexin	12	$28

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Park Ridge

Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M
Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M

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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.

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