Matthew Kaminsky, MD
Trauma Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1316292386
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $13,500 of the $22,111 with a category attached, or 61.1%. Teleflex LLC accounts for 89.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $10,576 and has fallen 91.2% since, to $936 in 2025. Among trauma 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 52 payments — averaging $425.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$20K
- Davol Inc.$794
- Polynovo North America LLC$341
- Haemonetics Corporation$239
- Merck$188
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$138
- plus $623 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,72812%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,50061%
- Travel & lodging$2,32311%
- Food & beverage$3,56016%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teleflex LLC | 24 | $19,788 |
| Davol Inc. | 11 | $794 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $341 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $239 |
| Merck | 2 | $188 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $138 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $137 |
| Vertex | 1 | $119 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $109 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $77 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- QuikClot$19,460
- Kerecis SurgiClose$467
- Phasix Mesh$386
- PHASIX$281
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$217
- Novosorb BTM$139
- RECELL$138
- STARLING SYSTEM$137
- Arrow$134
- JOURNAVX$119
- Kerecis GraftGuide$117
- ZERBAXA$101
How this compares
$22,111 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 47 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Chicago
- Leah TatebeChicago$70K
- Nabil IssaChicago$28K
- Joseph HerroldChicago$22K
- Osama AlsaiedChicago$16K
- Juan Flores GonzalezChicago$9K
- David SigmonChicago$8K
- Michael SutherlandChicago$8K
- Ida MolaviChicago$5K
- Nicole MeredythChicago$5K
- Adriana Valera ReyesChicago$4K
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.