Stephanie Wu
Foot Surgery · North Chicago, ILNPI 1003877762
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,650 of the $7,196 with a category attached, or 64.6%. Convatec Inc. accounts for 74.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,817 and has fallen 90.8% since, to $535 in 2025. Among foot surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 24 payments — averaging $299.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Convatec Inc.$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$545
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$480
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$169
- Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.$164
- Smith+Nephew$135
- plus $315 from 4 others
Across 102 payments — averaging $4025.30 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.
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$310K
- Ipsen Innovation$71K
- Smith+Nephew$26K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,65065%
- Travel & lodging$1,16716%
- Food & beverage$1,38019%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convatec Inc. | 4 | $5,388 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $545 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $480 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $169 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $135 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Stryker | 1 | $21 |
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.
- AQUACEL AG$5,337
- Prokera$480
- AmnioGraft$480
- AmnioGuard$480
- PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$164
- GRAFIX PL$135
- STRAVIX PL$135
- Oasis$135
- MIRO3D$133
- LUTONIX$100
How this compares
$7,196 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 51 foot surgery providers in Illinois.
Other foot surgery in North Chicago
- Karona MasonNorth Chicago$142
- Jeeten SinghaWestmont$14K
- Christopher AndersonO'Fallon$13K
- Jillian CabaiChicago$7K
- William FinnOak Park$5K
- Jeremiah BushmakerGalesburg$5K
- Cory JacobyElgin$4K
- Syed HussainHoffman Estates$4K
- Edward UramDowners Grove$4K
- Mary OlszewskiPalatine$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.