John Santaniello, MD
Surgery · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1700912409
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $16,750 of the $19,733 with a category attached, or 84.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 90.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $11,327 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $405 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 45 payments — averaging $438.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$18K
- Kerecis Limited$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$246
- Medtronic$143
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$108
- Conmed Corporation$92
- plus $147 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5593%
- Food & beverage$2,40812%
- Education$16,75085%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 16 | $17,782 |
| Kerecis Limited | 9 | $1,215 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $246 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $143 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $92 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $45 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $31 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 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.
- DAVINCI XI$16,750
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$2,288
- Kerecis SurgiClose$1,249
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,151
- Da Vinci Surgical System$693
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$636
- Kerecis GraftGuide$312
- AdvantageRib$117
- Restrata Wound Matrix$108
How this compares
$19,733 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,180 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.
Other surgery in Oak Lawn
- Paul BalashOak Lawn$275K
- Jaishankar RamanBurr Ridge$1.6M
- Reza GamagamiNew Lenox$1.2M
- Francesco BiancoChicago$1M
- Mark KeldahlChicago$765K
- Barry RosenBarrington$443K
- Douglas JonesChampaign$425K
- Rami LutfiChicago$411K
- Paul VanaDowners Grove$368K
- Erik BorncampNew Lenox$364K
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.