Richard Southgate, MD
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Lake Forest, ILNPI 1720303308
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 38.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $27,344 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $121 in 2025.
Across 155 payments — averaging $292.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$17K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$11K
- Think Surgical, Inc.$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$3K
- Stryker$2K
- plus $4K from 19 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $5000.00 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Lazurite Inc.$15K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,05057%
- Travel & lodging$7,96018%
- Food & beverage$8,08318%
- Education$3,1597%
- Gifts$1140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 24 | $17,408 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 17 | $10,791 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $3,849 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 43 | $3,497 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 4 | $3,184 |
| Stryker | 17 | $2,328 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $1,078 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 4 | $943 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 9 | $791 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 4 | $284 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 3 | $172 |
| Engage Uni, LLC | 2 | $165 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $124 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Orthalign Inc | 2 | $76 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $76 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Empire Medical, Inc | 1 | $57 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $54 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ATTUNE$25,769
- Tsolution One Surgical System$3,849
- Velys$3,194
- MAKO$1,806
- iTotal Identity PS$943
- Identity Imprint Knee Replacement System$943
- ROSA-Knee$660
- AMISTEM$365
- HOFFMANN$160
- TRIATHLON$158
- PALACOS$133
- Various Products$127
- Iovera$124
- ACCOLADE$123
- SPRINT PNS System$121
- Engage Partial Knee System$114
- Persona Revision$112
- Surgical Product Portfolio$110
- GMK SPHERE$104
- DERMABOND$102
How this compares
$45,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 67 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 162 | $5,808 |
| Pregabalin | 28 | $294 |
| Methylprednisolone | 52 | $289 |
| Meloxicam | 44 | $170 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $96 |
| Amoxicillin | 30 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Lake Forest
- Wayne PaproskyWinfield$10.9M
- Scott SporerWinfield$5.3M
- Denis NamChicago$3.2M
- Craig della ValleChicago$2.4M
- Hany BedairChicago$1.1M
- Linda SuleimanChicago$898K
- Tad GerlingerChicago$642K
- Henry FinnChicago$523K
- Vasili KarasChicago$264K
- Brett LevineChicago$250K
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.