Michael Heller, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Lake Forest, ILNPI 1417395062
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,255 of the $8,552 with a category attached, or 61.4%. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.8%.
Across 104 payments — averaging $82.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Biocompatibles, Inc.$2K
- Varian Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$714
- Medline Industries LP$655
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6488%
- Travel & lodging$2,64931%
- Food & beverage$5,25561%
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 | 39 | $1,946 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 4 | $1,567 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 7 | $1,220 |
| Abbott | 3 | $1,184 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 15 | $714 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $655 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 13 | $455 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 9 | $318 |
| Stryker | 2 | $160 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $136 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $59 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $28 |
| Biogen | 1 | $24 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$8,552 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 197 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Illinois.
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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 vascular & interventional radiology in Lake Forest
- Joshua TepperLake Forest$22K
- Riad SalemChicago$2.3M
- Kush DesaiChicago$1M
- Robert LewandowskiChicago$954K
- Christopher MolvarChicago$850K
- Sreekumar MadasseryChicago$459K
- Bulent ArslanChicago$300K
- Paramjit ChopraHinsdale$284K
- Rotimi JohnsonElgin$232K
- Sreenivas ReddyHinsdale$172K
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.