Joshua Billingsley, MD
Neurological Surgery · Park Ridge, ILNPI 1316165475
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.4%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 43.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $27,976, more than ten times the $62 reported in 2019.
Across 72 payments — averaging $493.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$15K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$11K
- Qapel Medical Inc$6K
- Imperative Care, Inc$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$966
- Medtronic$768
- plus $684 from 4 others
Across 27 payments — averaging $3381.08 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$60K
- Stryker$31K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,74733%
- Travel & lodging$19,68655%
- Food & beverage$4,10712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 22 | $15,273 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $10,664 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 3 | $5,887 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 9 | $1,298 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $966 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $768 |
| Viz.ai, Inc. | 2 | $303 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 2 | $264 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $101 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- SURPASS EVOLVE$13,920
- SPOTLIGHT$9,000
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$1,222
- Pipeline$507
- Embotrap$396
- Viz.AI LVO$303
- Optima Coil System$264
- TARGET$163
- CEREPAK UNIFORM$131
- AXIUM PRIMETM$113
- CEREBASE$112
How this compares
$35,540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 302 neurological 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 neurological surgery in Park Ridge
- Patrick SugruePark Ridge$571K
- Demetrius LopesPark Ridge$302K
- Dean KarahaliosPark Ridge$170K
- Amanda SaratsisPark Ridge$144K
- Zayed AlmadidyPark Ridge$53K
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Russell NockelsArlington Heights$1.4M
- Bruce FrankelSpringfield$1.3M
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.