Matthew George, MD
Vascular Surgery · Rockford, ILNPI 1821484601
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $10,000 of the $14,752 with a category attached, or 67.8%. Medtronic accounts for 87.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,000 and has fallen 69.7% since, to $1,517 in 2025.
Across 53 payments — averaging $278.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$13K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$679
- Abbott$285
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$255
- Inari Medical, Inc.$220
- Boston Scientific$132
- plus $281 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,00068%
- Travel & lodging$2,49417%
- Food & beverage$2,25815%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 33 | $12,900 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $679 |
| Abbott | 2 | $285 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $255 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $220 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $132 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $49 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Stryker | 1 | $28 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Endurant$5,000
- Valiant Navion$5,000
- VenaSeal$878
- Valiant Captivia$837
- RotarexS 6 F x 135 cm$589
- ESPRIT$285
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$219
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$187
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$187
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$144
- ENDURANT IIS$136
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$132
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$110
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$110
How this compares
$14,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 170 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $16,553 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 89 | $813 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 54 | $684 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 25 | $256 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Rockford
- Ross MilnerChicago$1.3M
- Sapan DesaiArlington Heights$1.2M
- Nabeel RanaPeoria$934K
- Atif BaqaiPark Ridge$567K
- Trissa BabrowskiChicago$292K
- Tejas ShahDowners Grove$213K
- Carlos BecharaMaywood$199K
- Dhiren PatelSpringfield$121K
- Heron RodriguezChicago$105K
- Michael SoultMaywood$104K
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.