Nikhil Patel
Surgical Critical Care · Park Ridge, ILNPI 1811347263
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $10,000 of the $12,155 with a category attached, or 82.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,233 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $217 in 2025. Among surgical critical care clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 28 payments — averaging $434.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$471
- Teleflex LLC$168
- Davol Inc.$132
- Conmed Corporation$127
- plus $146 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0008%
- Food & beverage$1,15510%
- Education$10,00082%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $10,111 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $1,000 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $471 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $168 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $127 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $122 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$10,000
- STRATAFIX$150
- Enseal$137
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$137
- Phasix Mesh$132
- GIAPREZA$122
- QuikClot$112
How this compares
$12,155 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 63 surgical critical care 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.
Other surgical critical care in Park Ridge
- Sanja NikolichPark Ridge$180
- Hadi ShaabanMcHenry$44K
- Alexander SauperChicago$41K
- Thomas CartolanoOak Lawn$34K
- Felipe GraciasTinley Park$23K
- Abigail TarboxChicago$14K
- Khafra Garcia HenryChicago$13K
- John KubasiakMaywood$11K
- Andrea RomanoChicago$7K
- Brandt WhitehurstSpringfield$6K
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.