Robert Aki
Surgery · Arlington Heights, ILNPI 1639271570
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 62.4% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,403 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $30 in 2025.
Across 56 payments — averaging $148.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- AbbVie$2K
- Davol Inc.$501
- Conmed Corporation$150
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$145
- Covidien LP$107
- plus $364 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,00048%
- Travel & lodging$2,56131%
- Food & beverage$1,74521%
- Education$200%
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 | 13 | $5,193 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $1,866 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $501 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $150 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $145 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $107 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $29 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $28 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $28 |
| BD | 1 | $27 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $24 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $17 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $12 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
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$4,965
- ALLODERM$1,598
- PHASIX$403
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$118
- ProGrip$107
How this compares
$8,325 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,180 surgery providers in Illinois.
Other surgery in Arlington Heights
- Daniel WoolArlington Heights$49K
- Jaishankar RamanBurr Ridge$1.6M
- Reza GamagamiNew Lenox$1.2M
- Francesco BiancoChicago$1M
- Mark KeldahlChicago$765K
- Barry RosenBarrington$443K
- Douglas JonesChampaign$425K
- Rami LutfiChicago$411K
- Paul VanaDowners Grove$368K
- Erik BorncampNew Lenox$364K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.