Seth Krantz, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Evanston, ILNPI 1881829992
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $20,196 of the $26,596 with a category attached, or 75.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $14,904 and has fallen 64.2% since, to $5,340 in 2025.
Across 55 payments — averaging $483.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$24K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Medela LLC$317
- Medtronic$209
- Covidien LP$127
- Merck$125
- plus $161 from 3 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $25,570 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AstraZeneca$26K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0504%
- Travel & lodging$3,33913%
- Food & beverage$2,0118%
- Education$20,19676%
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 | 42 | $24,470 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $1,188 |
| Medela LLC | 2 | $317 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $209 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $127 |
| Merck | 1 | $125 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
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$10,881
- DAVINCI XI$10,500
- DA VINCI SP$2,500
- IMFINZI$1,050
- Art. 101030215 Thopaz+ Chest Drainage$306
- Signet$154
- TAGRISSO$138
- KEYTRUDA$125
How this compares
$26,596 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 30 | $444 |
| Mupirocin | 14 | $111 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Nikola DobrilovicEvanston$26K
- 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
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
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.