Joseph Axelrod, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1548342199
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (38.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 37.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,991 and has fallen 76.4% since, to $2,361 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 202 payments — averaging $140.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$10K
- Momentis Surgical Inc.$2K
- Hologic Inc$2K
- Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC$922
- Coloplast$870
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,98739%
- Travel & lodging$9,43333%
- Food & beverage$3,83214%
- Education$4,01914%
- Gifts$360%
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 | 47 | $10,613 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 24 | $10,290 |
| Momentis Surgical Inc. | 3 | $1,806 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $1,762 |
| Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC | 7 | $922 |
| Coloplast | 9 | $870 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 42 | $653 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 8 | $182 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $136 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 7 | $113 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 5 | $94 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Merck | 6 | $88 |
| Organon | 4 | $75 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $58 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $39 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $39 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Amgen | 2 | $36 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Meditrina | 1 | $26 |
| Millicent US Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $19 |
| Visby Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Myovant Sciences 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,721
- MYOSURE TISSUE REMOVAL DEVICE$2,228
- Anovo Surgical System$1,806
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- ACESSA PROVU SYSTEM$498
- ALTIS$454
- FLUENT FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM$431
- RESTORELLE$220
- DA VINCI SP$109
How this compares
$28,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,732 obstetrics & gynecology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 20 | $1,762 |
| ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized | 18 | $619 |
| Spironolactone | 12 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Oak Lawn
- Anne SchaibleOak Lawn$546K
- Lee ShulmanChicago$559K
- Christopher OlsonNaperville$530K
- Maria TamChicago$378K
- Charles MillerNaperville$317K
- Gregory UrsinoChicago$242K
- Buthaina JabirNaperville$199K
- Frank TugwellSterling$140K
- Ayman Al-HendyChicago$135K
- Nicole TaskerChicago$125K
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.