Russell McElveen, DO
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Springfield, ILNPI 1275714735
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (56.3%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 49.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,403 and has fallen 54.7% since, to $2,898 in 2025.
Across 116 payments — averaging $136.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$8K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$898
- Intuitive Surgical$760
- Livanova USA, Inc.$635
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,3068%
- Travel & lodging$8,90556%
- Food & beverage$5,61435%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 33 | $7,904 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 19 | $2,200 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $1,672 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $898 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $760 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 8 | $635 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 6 | $620 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $265 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $258 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $110 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $105 |
| Stryker | 4 | $103 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $17 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 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.
- CoreValve Evolut$5,648
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,436
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$764
- Da Vinci Surgical System$640
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$506
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$261
- BioMonitor$251
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$151
- Edora 8 DR-T$144
- ProtekDuo$140
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$138
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$130
- Impella$121
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$114
- Grafts$114
- EXPAREL$110
- LifeSPARC$105
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$105
How this compares
$15,826 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Springfield
- Traves CrabtreeSpringfield$13K
- Lindsey SaintSpringfield$10K
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Andrew ArndtWinfield$206K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
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.