Joseph Adams
Cardiovascular Disease · Park Ridge, ILNPI 1073179594
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $34.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$471
- Medtronic$376
- Inari Medical, Inc.$369
- Cleerly, Inc.$192
- ZOLL Circulation Inc$142
- Stryker$125
- plus $689 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,364100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 26 | $471 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $376 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $369 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 2 | $142 |
| Stryker | 1 | $125 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $98 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $95 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $31 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Gentuity, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $25 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $22 |
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.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$304
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$304
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$289
- Cleerly Ischemia$192
- Cleerly Labs$192
- OptiCross 6$146
- TherOx DS2 Console$103
- Catheter$103
- Downstream Cartridge$103
How this compares
$2,364 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 26 | $32,739 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 17 | $15,802 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 53 | $596 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 54 | $545 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 33 | $438 |
| Prasugrel Hcl | 13 | $425 |
| Losartan Potassium | 40 | $322 |
| Carvedilol | 18 | $179 |
| Bumetanide | 11 | $176 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 25 | $170 |
| Spironolactone | 21 | $167 |
| Furosemide | 22 | $91 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Park Ridge
- Benjamin LumicaoChicago$3.7M
- Paul CremerChicago$2.9M
- Lokesh ChandraHazel Crest$2.7M
- Steven LupovitchArlington Heights$2.6M
- Nitasha SarswatChicago$2M
- Alan BrownNaperville$1.5M
- Alexander AdlerPeoria$1.5M
- Clifford KavinskyMaywood$1.4M
- Sanjiv ShahChicago$1.2M
- Sandeep NathanChicago$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.