Sameer Alvi, MD
Otolaryngology · Chicago, ILNPI 1619311875
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,000 of the $5,954 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,136, more than ten times the $336 reported in 2019.
Across 24 payments — averaging $248.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Covidien LP$325
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$280
- Medtronic$222
- Intersect ENT, Inc.$162
- Johnson & Johnson$25
- plus $58 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3255%
- Travel & lodging$80113%
- Food & beverage$82714%
- Education$4,00067%
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 | 9 | $4,881 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $325 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $280 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $222 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $25 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Acclarent, Inc | 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 SP$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$782
- LigaSure$325
- Restrata Wound Matrix$242
How this compares
$5,954 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 390 otolaryngology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ipratropium Bromide | 30 | $1,098 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in Chicago
- David ConleyChicago$630K
- Jayant PintoChicago$628K
- Robert KernChicago$610K
- Victoria LeeChicago$86K
- Louis PortugalChicago$68K
- Dean ToriumiChicago$63K
- Monica PatadiaChicago$56K
- Phillip LosavioChicago$53K
- Fuad BaroodyChicago$46K
- Bruce TanChicago$44K
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.