Matthew Hyser, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Evanston, ILNPI 1336155092
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.1% of the total across 40 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 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $507 and has fallen 80.9% since, to $97 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $1,303.
Across 40 payments — averaging $26.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$179
- Medline Industries LP$171
- Johnson & Johnson$105
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$83
- Covidien LP$79
- Medtronic$73
- plus $369 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$202%
- Food & beverage$1,03798%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $179 |
| Medline Industries LP | 3 | $171 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $105 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $79 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $73 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $55 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Merck | 2 | $35 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $22 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 63 surgical critical 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase | 15 | $16,915 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 16 | $229 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 12 | $153 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in Evanston
- Hadi ShaabanMcHenry$44K
- Alexander SauperChicago$41K
- Thomas CartolanoOak Lawn$34K
- Felipe GraciasTinley Park$23K
- Abigail TarboxChicago$14K
- Khafra Garcia HenryChicago$13K
- Nikhil PatelPark Ridge$12K
- John KubasiakMaywood$11K
- Andrea RomanoChicago$7K
- Brandt WhitehurstSpringfield$6K
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.