Joseph Stella, DO
Interventional Cardiology · Mokena, ILNPI 1104880376
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 571 payments — averaging $15.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$1K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$1K
- Novartis$1K
- AOP Health US, LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$795
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$536
- plus $3K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,77699%
- Education$911%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 140 | $1,376 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 112 | $1,145 |
| Novartis | 75 | $1,097 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 3 | $1,063 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 69 | $795 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 36 | $536 |
| Amgen | 28 | $470 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $378 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $269 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $199 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 10 | $160 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $137 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 5 | $120 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $91 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $87 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Bayer | 3 | $72 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 3 | $58 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $52 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $45 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $29 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $27 |
| Merck | 2 | $26 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| GSK | 1 | $18 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $15 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 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.
- Rapiblyk$2,127
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$174
- CoreValve Evolut$116
How this compares
$8,867 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 303 interventional cardiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 911 | $1,191,025 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 312 | $498,253 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 180 | $255,428 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 46 | $50,541 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 31 | $41,569 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 43 | $41,279 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 18 | $25,763 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 1,729 | $25,682 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 1,810 | $21,344 |
| Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 371 | $13,532 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 1,460 | $12,363 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 815 | $10,593 |
| Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 263 | $9,566 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 643 | $9,172 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 13 | $8,598 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $1,376 | $1,191,025911 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,097 | $498,253312 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $795 | $255,428180 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $269 | $92,11077 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $45 | $25,76318 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $18 | $8,59813 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 50th percentile of 303 interventional cardiology providers in Illinois.
Other interventional cardiology in Mokena
- Charles DavidsonChicago$5.8M
- Ravi RamanaPalos Park$2.8M
- Mark RicciardiEvanston$2.2M
- Andrei PopElk Grove Village$1.9M
- Krishna Rocha SinghSpringfield$1.7M
- Bruce LewisMaywood$1.3M
- Justin LevisayEvanston$837K
- Atman ShahChicago$794K
- Laura DavidsonChicago$661K
- Sunil AgarwalSpringfield$609K
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.