James Kane
General Surgery · Hoffman Estates, ILNPI 1528028180
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $19,000 of the $26,763 with a category attached, or 71.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.7% of it on its own, with 32 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $10,954 and has fallen 93.3% since, to $734 in 2025. Among general 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 136 payments — averaging $196.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$23K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$780
- Novo Nordisk$434
- Smith+Nephew$234
- Medtronic$189
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$186
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7803%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5009%
- Travel & lodging$9243%
- Food & beverage$3,55913%
- Education$19,00071%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 27 | $23,192 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $780 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $434 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $234 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $189 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $186 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 13 | $184 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 7 | $159 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $152 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $129 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $113 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $100 |
| Vertex | 4 | $96 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $93 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $82 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $72 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $39 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $37 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $27 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $22 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Palette Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Focal Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$22,868
- Echelon Flex$780
- Wegovy$125
- NIM Vital$111
- Saxenda$104
How this compares
$26,763 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 41 general 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Hoffman Estates
- Paul GuskeHoffman Estates$31K
- Peter RantisHoffman Estates$26K
- Phillip CacioppoElk Grove Village$29K
- Gavish PatelPeoria$10K
- Mark AndersonChicago$365
- Robert GellerMelrose Park$211
- Mohammed ArainDowners Grove$171
- Douglas WisemanChicago$0
- Ciaran BradleyGlen Ellyn$0
- Delinda WillsPeoria$0
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.