Laura Ragauskaite, MD
Surgery · New Lenox, ILNPI 1720234222
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.2% of the total across 61 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 61 payments — averaging $36.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$454
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$371
- Kerecis Limited$213
- Medtronic$131
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$118
- Merck$106
- plus $856 from 26 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $19,533 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.
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.$59K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,18797%
- Gifts$623%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $454 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 4 | $371 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $213 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $131 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Merck | 4 | $106 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $81 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $60 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $50 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $50 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $45 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $37 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Cardinal Health 414 LLC | 1 | $16 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Stryker | 1 | $15 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$2,249 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,180 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 96 | $694 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $87 |
| Diazepam | 12 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in New Lenox
- Reza GamagamiNew Lenox$1.2M
- Erik BorncampNew Lenox$364K
- Jaishankar RamanBurr Ridge$1.6M
- Francesco BiancoChicago$1M
- Mark KeldahlChicago$765K
- Barry RosenBarrington$443K
- Douglas JonesChampaign$425K
- Rami LutfiChicago$411K
- Paul VanaDowners Grove$368K
- Michael UjikiEvanston$276K
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.