James Thiele, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Springfield, ILNPI 1659465813
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,283 of the $1,987 with a category attached, or 64.5%. Medtronic accounts for 76.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,387 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $77 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $3,320.
Across 17 payments — averaging $116.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Stryker$170
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$150
- Intuitive Surgical$63
- Covidien LP$48
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$19
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1508%
- Travel & lodging$1,28365%
- Food & beverage$55428%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,520 |
| Stryker | 1 | $170 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $63 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $48 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- INTERSTIM$1,221
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$170
- GATTEX$150
How this compares
$1,987 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 79 colon & rectal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac | 30 | $5,203 |
| Moxifloxacin Hcl | 16 | $443 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 15 | $241 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $230 |
| Metronidazole | 32 | $99 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 11 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Springfield
- David StewartSpringfield$9K
- Adam MaerzSpringfield$3K
- Jac CooperSpringfield$1K
- Jan RakinicSpringfield$1K
- Marc SingerChicago$201K
- Francisco QuinterosChicago$119K
- Lawrence PrabhakerRockford$81K
- Konstantin UmanskiyChicago$30K
- Vitaliy PoylinChicago$26K
- Monika KrezalekHighland Park$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.