Patrick Birmingham, MD
Sports Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1043477052
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $28,633 of the $42,188 with a category attached, or 67.9%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 67.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $22,819 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $2,521 in 2025.
Across 47 payments — averaging $897.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$28K
- Medwest Associates$6K
- Arthrex$5K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$2K
- Graymont Professional Products IP, LLC$1K
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$21
Across 4 payments — averaging $838.38 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.
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,8007%
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,63368%
- Travel & lodging$8,95821%
- Food & beverage$1,7974%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 35 | $28,475 |
| Medwest Associates | 4 | $5,944 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $4,949 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $1,750 |
| Graymont Professional Products IP, LLC | 1 | $1,050 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $21 |
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.
- MICRORAPTOR$23,443
- Q-FIX$22,372
- Healicoil$11,722
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$9,035
- BIORAPTOR Hip$6,150
- Hip Pac$6,150
- AMBIENT HIPVAC$6,150
- Hipstruments$1,868
- Pre-Sutured Tendon$1,750
- Q-FIX Hip$1,594
- Ultrabraid$1,522
- True Zero Knee$1,050
- Bioraptor Knotless$1,050
- HEALICOIL PK Hip$1,050
- MICRORAPTOR Knotless Shoulder$1,050
- MICRORAPTOR Hip Suture$1,050
- SPEEDLOCK HIP$533
How this compares
$42,188 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 233 sports medicine 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 sports medicine in Chicago
- Gregory NicholsonChicago$6.7M
- Grant GarriguesChicago$2.5M
- Brian ColeChicago$2.1M
- Brian ForsytheChicago$1.9M
- Nikhil VermaChicago$647K
- Shane NhoChicago$521K
- Vehniah TjongChicago$173K
- Aravind AthivirahamChicago$138K
- Adam YankeChicago$132K
- Nicholas TrasoliniChicago$67K
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.