Steven Kovar
Pediatrics · Plainfield, ILNPI 1104823780
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $7,475 of the $11,905 with a category attached, or 62.8%. Pfizer accounts for 70.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,138 and has fallen 83.1% since, to $866 in 2025. Among pediatrics 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 170 payments — averaging $70.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$8K
- Sekisui Diagnostics LLC$1K
- Merck$449
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$404
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$273
- Seqirus USA Inc$267
- plus $999 from 15 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $400.00 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.
- Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company$400
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,47563%
- Travel & lodging$1251%
- Food & beverage$3,19927%
- Education$50%
- Gifts$1,1009%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 42 | $8,414 |
| Sekisui Diagnostics LLC | 4 | $1,100 |
| Merck | 25 | $449 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 20 | $404 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $273 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 11 | $267 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 9 | $187 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 5 | $100 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 5 | $92 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 9 | $88 |
| GSK | 5 | $68 |
| Corium, LLC | 4 | $52 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $49 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $40 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
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
$11,905 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,058 pediatrics providers in Illinois.
Other pediatrics in Plainfield
- Amy PallerChicago$1.2M
- Jan BergerChicago$886K
- Jonathan RobertsPeoria$588K
- Anita Chandra PuriChicago$367K
- Mindy SimpsonChicago$318K
- Anthony ManciniChicago$187K
- Patricia ChiamasChicago$155K
- Ruchi GuptaChicago$94K
- Loris RaynerEvergreen Park$46K
- Dov ShapiroLincolnshire$45K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.