Jerome Kolavo, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Warrenville, ILNPI 1013906213
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,803 of the $4,959 with a category attached, or 76.7%. Medtronic accounts for 81.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,078 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $20 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $12,158.
Across 36 payments — averaging $137.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$821
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$29
- Nanovis LLC$26
- Johnson & Johnson$20
- Stryker$20
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,80377%
- Food & beverage$1,15623%
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) | 28 | $4,043 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 3 | $821 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Nanovis LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
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.
- O-ARM-ST$1,653
- INFINITY OCT System$901
- Vu aPOD Prime NanoMetalene$821
- Mariner$720
- Shoreline$720
- MazorX - Renaissance$698
- NewPort$458
- UNiD$116
How this compares
$4,959 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Etodolac | 170 | $3,196 |
| Celecoxib | 63 | $1,883 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 50 | $579 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 56 | $441 |
| Gabapentin | 32 | $325 |
| Naproxen | 28 | $295 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 18 | $163 |
| Methylprednisolone | 30 | $130 |
| Ibuprofen | 18 | $110 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 41 | $105 |
| Diazepam | 13 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Warrenville
- Brian SteinkeWarrenville$1K
- Stephen HeimWarrenville$422
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
- Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
- Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Mir AliMorris$329K
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.