Marco Ellis, MD
Plastic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1508021171
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 89.9% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $92,846 and has fallen 51.0% since, to $45,452 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 336 payments — averaging $670.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$203K
- Zimmer Biomet$15K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$2K
- Kerecis Limited$1K
- Tepha Inc$816
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$395
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$91,53541%
- Speaking & faculty fees$99,54444%
- Travel & lodging$20,2729%
- Food & beverage$13,8296%
- Gifts$340%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 197 | $202,534 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 26 | $15,357 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 36 | $1,775 |
| Kerecis Limited | 6 | $1,243 |
| Tepha Inc | 15 | $816 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $395 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $363 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $337 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $314 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $244 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $215 |
| Axogen | 6 | $205 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $196 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $191 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $168 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $143 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $142 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $141 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $132 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Longeviti Neuro Solutions Inc | 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.
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$182,253
- REVOLVE$35,410
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$29,735
- BOTOX$21,087
- PMI/Customs$7,525
- ALLODERM$2,792
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$2,626
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$2,151
- TMJ SYSTEM$1,249
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$835
- Kerecis SurgiClose$483
- GalaFLEX$408
- INTEGRA$340
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$288
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$259
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$222
- ARISTA$170
- Irrisept$168
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$150
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$145
How this compares
$225,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 191 plastic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Chicago
- Steven DayanChicago$1.2M
- Robert GalianoChicago$123K
- Michael LeeChicago$109K
- Lawrence IteldChicago$36K
- Peter GeldnerChicago$34K
- David HillChicago$28K
- Summer HansonChicago$18K
- Steven LanierChicago$17K
- Clark SchierleChicago$16K
- Jeffrey WeinzweigChicago$11K
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.