Has Nancy Young received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $43,406 in general payments to Nancy Young across 82 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 Nancy Young 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 Nancy Young 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.

Nancy Young

Pediatric Otolaryngology · Chicago, ILNPI 1942296504

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $27,715 of the $43,406 with a category attached, or 63.9%. Med-el Corporation accounts for 92.2% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $10,928 and has fallen 62.2% since, to $4,134 in 2025. Among pediatric otolaryngology 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.

$43,406in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 82 payments — averaging $529.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Med-el Corporation$40K
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$3K
Advanced Bionics, LLC$30

$1,228,624in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $39,633 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Med-el Corporation$1.2M

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,3608%
Speaking & faculty fees$6,00014%
Travel & lodging$27,71564%
Food & beverage$3,6378%
Education$2,6946%

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
Med-el Corporation	80	$40,016
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$3,360
Advanced Bionics, LLC	1	$30

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.

Mi1250 SYNCHRONY 2 FLEXsoft$30,023
BCI 602 Kit$25,396
ADHEAR Professional Kit$21,199
MED-EL Maestro Cochlear Implant System$8,022
VIBRANT Soundbridge Middle Ear Implant and BONEBRIDGE System$5,800

How this compares

$43,406 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 20 pediatric otolaryngology providers in Illinois.

See all pediatric otolaryngology providers in Illinois →

Other pediatric otolaryngology in Chicago

Stephen HoffChicago$9K
Dana ThompsonChicago$2K
Inbal Hazkani BendrorChicago$1K
Veronica Drozdowski-NuccioChicago$1K
Douglas JohnstonChicago$492
Saied GhadersohiChicago$311
Lauren HolingerChicago$265
Taher ValikaChicago$211
Jeffrey RastatterChicago$159
Kathleen BillingsChicago$57

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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