Jeffrey Silver, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chicago, ILNPI 1770585978
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $26,500 of the $38,571 with a category attached, or 68.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.7% of it on its own, with 36 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $12,845 and has fallen 95.6% since, to $566 in 2025.
Across 193 payments — averaging $199.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$30K
- Abbott$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$1K
- Abiomed$860
- Philips North America LLC$600
- plus $3K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2083%
- Travel & lodging$2,7887%
- Food & beverage$8,07421%
- Education$26,50069%
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 | 51 | $30,352 |
| Abbott | 12 | $1,410 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 22 | $1,407 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $1,208 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $860 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $600 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $326 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $300 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 12 | $268 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $252 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $215 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 4 | $177 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Merck | 5 | $123 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $117 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $93 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 4 | $80 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 3 | $73 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Helios Cardio Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $32 |
| Stryker | 1 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $26 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $17 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$16,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$10,652
- ION$3,000
- NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED$1,208
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$804
- Impella$692
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$460
- GlideLight$347
- QUADRA ASSURA$163
- Bridge$145
- NAVITOR$139
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$138
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$134
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$134
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$132
- Signia$129
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$125
- LifeSPARC$104
How this compares
$38,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | 16 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Chicago
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- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
- Husam BalkhyChicago$129K
- Christopher SalernoChicago$124K
- Duc PhamChicago$114K
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.