Has Paul Ackerman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,474 in general payments to Paul Ackerman, MD across 204 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Paul Ackerman, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Paul Ackerman, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Paul Ackerman, MD

Neurological Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1275762262

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,474in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 204 payments — averaging $41.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$4K
Medtronic$856
Stryker$698
Johnson & Johnson$501
Si-bone, Inc.$394
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$369
plus $1K from 23 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$90011%
Speaking & faculty fees$801%
Food & beverage$7,49488%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	82	$4,204
Medtronic(2 entities)	19	$856
Stryker	21	$698
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	15	$501
Si-bone, Inc.	9	$394
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	3	$369
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	3	$247
Chiesi USA, Inc.	15	$245
Longeviti Neuro Solutions Inc	1	$167
Abbott	4	$86
DJO, LLC	3	$79
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	5	$74
Kerecis Limited	1	$70
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$57
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	2	$48
Augmedics Inc.	2	$45
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	2	$39
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$36
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$34
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$33
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$31
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$31
7d Surgical ULC	2	$25
Merck	1	$25
Phadia US Inc.	1	$19
GSK	1	$18
Theragen, Inc.	1	$17
AstraZeneca	1	$13
Wenzel Spine, Inc.	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

$8,474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 302 neurological surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$370,675

Medicare patients

385

Services billed

1,362

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
Amitriptyline Hcl	11	$486
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	15	$193
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	20	$176
Gabapentin	13	$68

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Chicago

Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
Richard FesslerChicago$924K
Sandi LamChicago$914K
John OtooleChicago$745K
Fady CharbelChicago$507K
Mohamad BydonChicago$472K
Joshua RosenowChicago$452K
Richard CrowleyChicago$372K

See the full list for Illinois →

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.

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