Richard Crowley, MD
Neurological Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1972710101
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (52.2%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Microvention, Inc. at 40.2% of the total. Among neurological surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 115 payments — averaging $905.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Microvention, Inc.$42K
- Medtronic$28K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$18K
- Stryker$14K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$721
- plus $802 from 8 others
Across 49 payments — averaging $5459.66 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.
- Medtronic$211K
- Viz.ai, Inc.$24K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$15K
- Stryker$13K
- Microvention, Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,88020%
- Speaking & faculty fees$54,36152%
- Travel & lodging$24,73524%
- Food & beverage$4,1404%
- Entertainment$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microvention, Inc. | 51 | $41,871 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $27,751 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $17,890 |
| Stryker | 8 | $14,080 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 5 | $1,018 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 4 | $721 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $179 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $158 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $134 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| NICO Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$39,391
- Pipeline$15,143
- PULSERIDER$12,757
- TRUFILL$12,757
- RIST$8,638
- SPECTRA GALAXY G3 MIN$5,063
- Rist-5F$2,063
- GammaTile$721
- Rist-7F$600
- Artemis$563
- Axium$400
- STENT$316
- Penumbra System$283
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$179
- XLIF$158
- SAPHNELO$134
- WEB$125
- Sofia$125
How this compares
$104,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 302 neurological surgery 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 neurological surgery in Chicago
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Richard FesslerChicago$910K
- John OtooleChicago$593K
- Fady CharbelChicago$507K
- Issam AwadChicago$266K
- Mohamad BydonChicago$163K
- Ali AlarajChicago$155K
- Konstantin SlavinChicago$153K
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.