Robert Cohen
Podiatrist · Evanston, ILNPI 1649239740
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $51.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$663
- Abbott$593
- Amgen$394
- Boston Scientific$298
- Johnson & Johnson$245
- Next Science LLC$219
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,979100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 23 | $663 |
| Abbott | 6 | $593 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 8 | $394 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $298 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $245 |
| Next Science LLC | 6 | $219 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $218 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $177 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $172 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $160 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $138 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $136 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $134 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $104 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $99 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Merck | 2 | $26 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $16 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 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.
- PROCLAIM$289
- ANGIOJET$182
- SurgX$168
- Xperience$168
- BlastX$168
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$138
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$134
- Armada$125
- INVOKANA$123
- MOTOBAND$122
- VERSAJET II$122
- GRAFIX PL$121
- STRAVIX PL$121
- NUZYRA$120
- Kimyrsa$116
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$116
- PluroGel Burn & Wound Dressings$111
- Hyalomatrix Wound Device$111
- MIRRAGEN ADVANCED WOUND MATRIX$104
- Santyl$104
How this compares
$3,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 409 podiatrist 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 31 | $718 |
| Ketoconazole | 22 | $632 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 16 | $429 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Evanston
- Tayeb HussainEvanston$15K
- Robert GerberEvanston$5K
- David YeagerMorrison$345K
- Syed HusainArlington Heights$248K
- Bela PanditEvergreen Park$164K
- Paul KirchnerNew Lenox$143K
- William BushRockford$141K
- Daniel BrownHarrisburg$136K
- Timothy GrahamTaylorville$70K
- Paul PotachWheeling$45K
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.