Maxine Tang
Cardiovascular Disease · Chicago, ILNPI 1285166868
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,934 of the $2,698 with a category attached, or 71.7%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Philips North America LLC at 33.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $859, 6.6 times the $131 reported in 2021.
Across 82 payments — averaging $32.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Philips North America LLC$892
- AstraZeneca$273
- Amgen$160
- Pfizer$157
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$140
- Novartis$124
- plus $951 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$66625%
- Food & beverage$1,93472%
- Education$984%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Philips North America LLC | 11 | $892 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $273 |
| Amgen | 4 | $160 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $157 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Novartis | 5 | $124 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 6 | $110 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $103 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $75 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $69 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $54 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $48 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $45 |
| Merck | 3 | $44 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $40 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $33 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 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
$2,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.
Other cardiovascular disease in Chicago
- Sandeep NathanChicago$892K
- Boaz AvitallChicago$366K
- Akhil NarangChicago$363K
- Michael DavidsonChicago$317K
- Jyothy PuthumanaChicago$269K
- Sanjiv ShahChicago$246K
- Raja MutharasanChicago$146K
- Nitasha SarswatChicago$140K
- Evan SteinChicago$121K
- Dan FintelChicago$119K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.