James Tuchek, DO
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Olympia Fields, ILNPI 1598721250
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (53.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 74.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,183 and has fallen 63.1% since, to $3,016 in 2025.
Across 118 payments — averaging $141.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$12K
- GE HealthCare$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$460
- Atricure, Inc.$322
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$312
- Abiomed$171
- plus $601 from 5 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $3002.76 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.
- Medtronic$63K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,86353%
- Travel & lodging$4,63528%
- Food & beverage$3,16119%
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) | 59 | $12,454 |
| GE HealthCare | 4 | $2,339 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $460 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $322 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 10 | $312 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $171 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $156 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 22 | $136 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $75 |
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.
- Endurant$4,432
- Aptus Heli-FX$3,110
- Valiant Navion$1,800
- Valiant Captivia$1,000
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$672
- CoreValve Evolut$502
- Da Vinci Surgical System$345
- ENDURANT IIS$300
- ALLIA$155
- PASCAL$143
- Impella$139
- HYDRO LEMAITRE VALVULOTOME$123
- Pleuraflow System with FlowGlide$110
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$107
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$107
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$107
How this compares
$16,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 40 | $4,383 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 14 | $82 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $36 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Olympia Fields
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Andrew ArndtWinfield$206K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
- Syed HussainKankakee$142K
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.