Rym El Khoury, MD
Vascular Surgery · Skokie, ILNPI 1497142129
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.5%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 49.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,084 and has fallen 59.3% since, to $1,663 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $105.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Abbott$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$827
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$710
- Penumbra, Inc.$374
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$158
- plus $610 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,50027%
- Travel & lodging$1,60417%
- Food & beverage$4,59049%
- Education$5876%
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 | 30 | $4,616 |
| Abbott | 17 | $1,986 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 9 | $827 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $710 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $374 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $125 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $109 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $102 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $98 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| Silk Road Medical, 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.
- ENDURANT IIS$3,448
- ESPRIT$1,059
- PERFORMER$368
- Diamondback Peripheral$363
- GORE-TEX Vascular Graft$312
- Indigo System$220
- HawkOne$165
- JETi All In One Non-Sterile Kit$160
- Cios Spin$158
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$142
- IN.PACT Admiral$133
- JETI$125
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$120
- Zenith Alpha$111
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$109
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$102
- ROSEN$101
How this compares
$9,281 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 170 vascular 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 14 | $178 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Skokie
- William YoonSkokie$54K
- Cheong LeeSkokie$19K
- Maunil BhattSkokie$9K
- Ross MilnerChicago$1.3M
- Sapan DesaiArlington Heights$1.2M
- Nabeel RanaPeoria$934K
- Atif BaqaiPark Ridge$567K
- Trissa BabrowskiChicago$292K
- Tejas ShahDowners Grove$213K
- Carlos BecharaMaywood$199K
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.