Has Michael Frank, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,020 in general payments to Michael Frank, MD across 20 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Frank, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Frank, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Frank, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1427043017

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,640 of the $4,020 with a category attached, or 65.7%. Baxter Healthcare accounts for 65.7% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,778 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $88 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $3,905.

$4,020in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $200.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Baxter Healthcare$3K
Abbott$820
Medtronic$260
Abiomed$160
Cardiva Medical, Inc.$88
Atricure, Inc.$39
plus $12 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,64066%
Travel & lodging$56214%
Food & beverage$81820%

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
Baxter Healthcare	2	$2,640
Abbott	7	$820
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$260
Abiomed	1	$160
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	3	$88
Atricure, Inc.	2	$39
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	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

$4,020 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$140,437

Medicare patients

140

Services billed

343

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Oak Lawn

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Allison BeckettOak Lawn$12K
James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
Samuel KimChicago$221K
Andrew ArndtWinfield$206K
Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K

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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.

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