Lauren Cimino
Primary Care · Chicago, ILNPI 1366864720
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.2%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nevro Corp. at 27.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,932 and has fallen 52.5% since, to $918 in 2025. Among primary care clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 44 payments — averaging $92.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Medtronic$915
- Boston Scientific$698
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$527
- Abbott$446
- SK Life Science, Inc.$144
- plus $205 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3007%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2707%
- Travel & lodging$1,28632%
- Food & beverage$2,19554%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $1,115 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $915 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $698 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $527 |
| Abbott | 9 | $446 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
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.
- Senza$704
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$597
- SPRINT PNS System$452
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$319
- ETERNA$145
- Epidiolex$120
- INFINITY$108
How this compares
$4,052 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 150 primary care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 27 | $177 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other primary care in Chicago
- Allison LindstromChicago$15K
- Dawn ConwayChicago$11K
- Ashley CarterChicago$7K
- Jennifer VazquezChicago$5K
- Yasmin FayazChicago$3K
- Bridget FlanaganChicago$3K
- Ecaterina ZamfirChicago$2K
- Elena IgnatievChicago$2K
- Reem ZayadChicago$2K
- Sarah MasseyChicago$1K
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.