Nathaniel George, DPM
Podiatrist · Chicago, ILNPI 1154784486
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $14,076 of the $19,335 with a category attached, or 72.8%. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.4%. Among podiatrist 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.
Across 290 payments — averaging $66.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Kerecis Limited$2K
- Organogenesis Inc.$2K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$2K
- Medline Industries LP$2K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- plus $8K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,22827%
- Food & beverage$14,07673%
- Gifts$320%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 46 | $2,589 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $2,130 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 50 | $2,090 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 25 | $1,804 |
| Medline Industries LP | 13 | $1,556 |
| Smith+Nephew | 31 | $1,174 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $963 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 10 | $840 |
| Arthrex | 10 | $776 |
| Medwest Associates | 7 | $688 |
| Lifenet Health | 4 | $678 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 16 | $608 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $334 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 5 | $332 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $308 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $304 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $271 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $268 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $264 |
| Misonix Inc | 13 | $237 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 6 | $227 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $185 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $130 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $124 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $68 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 2 | $20 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 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.
- MEDLINE UNITE$4,699
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$4,476
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$3,634
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$2,027
- Lapiplasty System$1,095
- PROstep$1,057
- NEOX$963
- CLARIX$963
- PuraPly$675
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$569
- Stravix$513
- INTEGRA$490
- Physio-Stim$454
- OsteoMed$398
- Oasis$377
- COLINK 2$304
- BioBrace 23mm$304
- Restrata Wound Matrix$283
- GRAFIX PL$273
- Grafix$240
How this compares
$19,335 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 409 podiatrist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clotrimazole | 17 | $503 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $101 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Chicago
- Walter JacobsenChicago$10K
- David GelbmannChicago$8K
- Leonid BlyuminChicago$6K
- Donna HayesChicago$6K
- Raymond Montoya IiChicago$6K
- Jondelle JenkinsChicago$6K
- Darla ThomasChicago$6K
- Carlos SmithChicago$6K
- Lisa Horn StinsonChicago$5K
- Ivan VelaChicago$5K
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.