Michael Alexander, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Chicago, ILNPI 1356768253
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 51 payments — averaging $122.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- AstraZeneca$941
- United Therapeutics Corporation$342
- Boehringer Ingelheim$170
- Sanofi$142
- GSK$121
- plus $287 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,25336%
- Education$4,01164%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $4,261 |
| AstraZeneca | 21 | $941 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 3 | $342 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $170 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $142 |
| GSK | 1 | $121 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $62 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $34 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Covis Pharma GmbH | 1 | $25 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
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
$6,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 539 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 28 | $358,220 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 250 | $187,654 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 94 | $58,297 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 53 | $52,941 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 67 | $32,293 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 57 | $14,445 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 61 | $11,667 |
| DuleraMometasone/Formoterol | 22 | $11,462 |
| AirsupraAlbuterol Sulfate/Budesonide | 11 | $8,431 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 221 | $6,387 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 30 | $6,138 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 12 | $6,008 |
| Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate | 14 | $5,978 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 127 | $3,047 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 38 | $2,104 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Spiriva Respimat | $170 | $364,22740 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta | $121 | $284,222425 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort, Airsupra | $941 | $75,817121 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 539 pulmonary disease providers in Illinois.
Other pulmonary disease in Chicago
- Douglas HogarthChicago$3.1M
- Manu JainChicago$1.9M
- Momen WahidiChicago$1.2M
- Steven WhiteChicago$989K
- Ravi KalhanChicago$831K
- Jane Dematte DamicoChicago$811K
- Septimiu MurguChicago$804K
- Richard WunderinkChicago$725K
- Dustin FraidenburgChicago$678K
- Ayodeji AdegunsoyeChicago$630K
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.