Nikola Dobrilovic, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Evanston, ILNPI 1649228776
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $16,500 of the $25,744 with a category attached, or 64.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $15,258 and has fallen 85.8% since, to $2,172 in 2025.
Across 77 payments — averaging $334.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$18K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Abiomed$891
- Abbott$614
- Atricure, Inc.$505
- Medtronic$442
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,60014%
- Travel & lodging$1,3835%
- Food & beverage$4,26117%
- Education$16,50064%
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 | 13 | $17,930 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $3,903 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $891 |
| Abbott | 8 | $614 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $505 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $442 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $256 |
| Corcym Inc | 3 | $205 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $195 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $193 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $102 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $101 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $65 |
| Stryker | 1 | $55 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $27 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $22 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
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
$25,744 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Evanston
- Seth KrantzEvanston$27K
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Andrew ArndtWinfield$206K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
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.