Nicholas Podkowirow, DPM
Podiatrist · Lake Zurich, ILNPI 1730614124
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 13 payments — averaging $111.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amniox Medical, Inc.$904
- Stryker$409
- KCI USA, Inc.$95
- Paragon 28, Inc.$18
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$14
- Amgen$13
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16411%
- Travel & lodging$73951%
- Food & beverage$54938%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 4 | $904 |
| Stryker | 4 | $409 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $95 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 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
$1,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 30 | $239 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Lake Zurich
- David YeagerMorrison$345K
- Syed HusainArlington Heights$248K
- Bela PanditEvergreen Park$164K
- Paul KirchnerNew Lenox$143K
- William BushRockford$141K
- Daniel BrownHarrisburg$136K
- Timothy GrahamTaylorville$70K
- Paul PotachWheeling$45K
- Steven JasonowiczBarrington$34K
- Jaclyn SchumannJoliet$29K
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.