John Stepney, PA
Surgical · Chicago, ILNPI 1235346701
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,278 of the $2,776 with a category attached, or 82.1%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Getinge USA Sales, LLC at 44.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,406 and has fallen 72.6% since, to $385 in 2025. Among surgical 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 72 payments — averaging $38.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$1K
- Abbott$529
- Edwards Lifesciences$192
- Zimmer Biomet$184
- Biotronik Inc.$153
- Medistim USA, Inc.$152
- plus $334 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$49818%
- Food & beverage$2,27882%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 35 | $1,232 |
| Abbott | 17 | $529 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $192 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $184 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $61 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $34 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $26 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$429
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$174
- Solia$153
- BioMonitor$153
- MiraQ$152
- CardioMEMS HF System$147
- QDOT MICRO Catheter$114
- Carto 3$114
How this compares
$2,776 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 335 surgical 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 surgical in Chicago
- Rachel KomornikChicago$19K
- Laura RyanChicago$17K
- Jocelin SistoChicago$6K
- Kelly HoyertChicago$6K
- Stephanie GurneyChicago$5K
- Monica FiehlerChicago$4K
- McKenzie GreeneChicago$4K
- Laura OsobaChicago$3K
- Christopher McGeeChicago$3K
- Keith LadendorfChicago$3K
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.