Joshua Tepper, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Lake Forest, ILNPI 1114183514
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $18,700 of the $21,960 with a category attached, or 85.2%. Stryker accounts for 92.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,406 and has fallen 77.6% since, to $2,999 in 2023.
Across 49 payments — averaging $448.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$20K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$802
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$369
- Boston Scientific$214
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$34
- Intuitive Surgical$29
- plus $111 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,70085%
- Travel & lodging$2,0189%
- Food & beverage$9444%
- Education$2981%
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 | 21 | $20,402 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 7 | $802 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $369 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $214 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $28 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
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.
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$11,713
- SPINEJACK$5,633
- AVAFLEX$2,888
- IVAS$2,888
- AUTOPLEX$2,888
- Superion ISS$644
- EVLT$298
How this compares
$21,960 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 197 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alprazolam | 12 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Lake Forest
- Michael HellerLake Forest$9K
- Riad SalemChicago$2.3M
- Kush DesaiChicago$1M
- Robert LewandowskiChicago$954K
- Christopher MolvarChicago$850K
- Sreekumar MadasseryChicago$459K
- Bulent ArslanChicago$300K
- Paramjit ChopraHinsdale$284K
- Rotimi JohnsonElgin$232K
- Sreenivas ReddyHinsdale$172K
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.