Obeid Ilahi, MD
Trauma Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1225088891
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (44.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,976 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $141 in 2025. Among trauma surgery clinicians in MO 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 72 payments — averaging $188.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$802
- CLR Medical, Inc.$75
- Polarityte, Inc.$54
- plus $29 from 2 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $30,018 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Davol Inc.$90K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,48240%
- Food & beverage$2,07115%
- Education$6,00044%
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 | 32 | $9,032 |
| Davol Inc. | 24 | $2,263 |
| Stryker | 5 | $1,299 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $802 |
| CLR Medical, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,579
- Phasix Mesh$1,256
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$691
- CMF & Thoracic-None$687
- PHASIX$493
- 1688$475
How this compares
$13,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 30 trauma surgery providers in Missouri.
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 trauma surgery in Saint Louis
- Kulsoom GunnSaint Louis$13K
- Rachel CohenSaint Louis$3K
- Abbie JensenSaint Louis$2K
- Stanley SakabuSaint Louis$2K
- Jane TenquistSaint Louis$641
- Kevin MahoneySaint Louis$566
- Nicholas RottlerSaint Louis$450
- Ashly RufSaint Louis$30
- Mark NicolasSpringfield$13K
- Thomas ReardonNorth Kansas City$12K
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.