Has Steven Chudik, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,058,044 in general payments to Steven Chudik, MD across 153 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Steven Chudik, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Steven Chudik, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Steven Chudik, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Westmont, ILNPI 1215029210

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,940,313 of the $4,058,044 with a category attached, or 97.1%. Arthrex accounts for 98.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,408,133 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $83,167 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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.

$4,058,044in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 153 payments — averaging $26,523 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$4M
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$54K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$11K
Medwest Associates$3K
Exactech, Inc.$1K
Stryker$724
plus $401 from 6 others

$50,000in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $50,000 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Hydrocision, Inc.$50K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$3,940,31397%
Consulting fees$104,9533%
Travel & lodging$6,5070%
Food & beverage$2,3190%
Education$3,3080%
Gifts$6440%

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
Arthrex	83	$3,987,592
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	40	$54,069
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	10	$10,526
Medwest Associates	4	$3,308
Exactech, Inc.	3	$1,424
Stryker	2	$724
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$205
Zimmer Biomet	1	$69
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$45
Solventum Corporation	1	$35
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$30
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$16

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.

SHOULDER INSTRUMENTS SUTURE PASSING DISPOSABLES LASSOS$869,581
ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE PARTIAL ECLIPSE$790,317
KNEE & HIP INSTRUMENTS ACL/PCL DISPOSABLES GUIDE PINS$696,556
SHOULDER INSTRUMENTS CANNULAS RIGID$696,556
SHOULDER INSTRUMENTS ANCHOR SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTS OTHER$696,556
ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS ANATOMIC TOTAL SHOULDER PARTIAL ECLIPSE & BIOTSR$528,561
ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE PARTIAL ECLIPSE$509,263
ARTHREX$220,096
SHOULDER INSTRUMENTS ANCHOR SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTS PUSHLOCKS$186,117
SHOULDER INSTRUMENTS ANCHOR SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTS SUTURETAKS$135,613
SHOULDER INSTRUMENTS OTHER INSTRUMENTS INSTRUMENT SETS$67,277
SHOULDER INSTRUMENTS DISPOSABLE KITS SUTURETAKS$37,412
SHOULDER INSTRUMENTS DISPOSABLE KITS PUSHLOCKS$37,412
INHANCE$23,473
SHOULDER IMPLANTS FIBERTAK KNOTLESS$3,375
EQUINOXE$1,407
SIMPLICITI$644
RECLAIM$486
ATTUNE$125

How this compares

$4,058,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$100,135

Medicare patients

144

Services billed

1,092

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Westmont

Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M
Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
Kamal IbrahimOakbrook Terrace$1.9M

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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.

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