Jennifer Ash
Vascular Surgery · Champaign, ILNPI 1578761334
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Endologix LLC accounts for 63.4% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,956 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $389 in 2022.
Across 227 payments — averaging $39.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$6K
- Medtronic$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$776
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$218
- Pfizer$153
- Smith+Nephew$101
- plus $631 from 18 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1645.35 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.
- Endologix LLC$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,70042%
- Travel & lodging$3354%
- Food & beverage$4,81154%
- Education$300%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 20 | $5,628 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 107 | $1,370 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 46 | $776 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 8 | $218 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $153 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $101 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $47 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Avinger Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
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
$8,876 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 170 vascular surgery providers in Illinois.
Other vascular surgery in Champaign
- Nikolaos KaragiorgosChampaign$8K
- Ross MilnerChicago$1.3M
- Sapan DesaiArlington Heights$1.2M
- Nabeel RanaPeoria$934K
- Atif BaqaiPark Ridge$567K
- Trissa BabrowskiChicago$292K
- Tejas ShahDowners Grove$213K
- Carlos BecharaMaywood$199K
- Dhiren PatelSpringfield$121K
- Heron RodriguezChicago$105K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.