Nso Nso, MD
Hospitalist · Burr Evanston, ILNPI 1750898367
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (47.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 51.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,324, more than ten times the $150 reported in 2022. Among hospitalist 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 88 payments — averaging $96.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$551
- Novartis$337
- Boehringer Ingelheim$292
- Cook Medical LLC$201
- plus $761 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$4,00047%
- Travel & lodging$1,40917%
- Food & beverage$2,67132%
- Education$3965%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 5 | $4,359 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $1,974 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 25 | $551 |
| Novartis | 16 | $337 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $292 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $201 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $150 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $137 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $88 |
| Bayer | 3 | $87 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $54 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $47 |
| Abbott | 2 | $38 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Amgen | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$8,476 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,328 hospitalist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 15 | $18,195 |
| EliquisApixaban | 19 | $15,380 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 13 | $7,570 |
| Valsartan | 25 | $698 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 43 | $612 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 27 | $478 |
| Carvedilol | 14 | $286 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 17 | $159 |
| Spironolactone | 20 | $153 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisEntresto | $337 | $18,19515 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $88 | $15,38019 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $19 | $7,57013 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,328 hospitalist providers in Illinois.
Other hospitalist in Burr Evanston
- Odulola OdusanyaLibertyville$544K
- Salih SamoChicago$251K
- Eric GluckChicago$80K
- Jorge Gomez AlarconLake Forest$72K
- Alvin ThomasChicago$28K
- Osman QaiyumMount Vernon$22K
- Wajahat HumayunMaywood$20K
- Gabriel DiazMaywood$18K
- Tasmeen HussainChicago$18K
- Juan Pablo Salazar AdumEvanston$11K
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.