Stefan Szczerba, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1881685873
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by gifts: $21,716 of the $28,969 with a category attached, or 75.0%. AbbVie accounts for 81.7% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $22,129 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $852 in 2025. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 213 payments — averaging $136.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$24K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$1K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$828
- Axogen$550
- Davol Inc.$450
- Motiva USA, LLC$336
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6402%
- Food & beverage$6,61323%
- Gifts$21,71675%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 82 | $23,669 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 43 | $1,249 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 11 | $828 |
| Axogen | 9 | $550 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $450 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 5 | $336 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 10 | $307 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $227 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 10 | $161 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $152 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 1 | $136 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $96 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $91 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $88 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $59 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $54 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Stryker | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$28,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 126 plastic and reconstructive 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 57 | $490 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $339 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 47 | $257 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 50 | $183 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Chicago
- John KimChicago$7.3M
- Julius FewChicago$148K
- Gregory DumanianChicago$50K
- Amir DorafsharChicago$29K
- Michael HornChicago$14K
- Lindsay JanesChicago$14K
- Georgios KokosisChicago$13K
- Cristin CoquillardChicago$13K
- Brian BraithwaiteChicago$12K
- Kevin YangChicago$7K
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.