Syed Husain, DPM
Podiatrist · Arlington Heights, ILNPI 1821182361
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $62,065 of the $82,135 with a category attached, or 75.6%. Acera Surgical, Inc. accounts for 76.9% of it on its own, with 40 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $41,167 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $1,253 in 2025. Among podiatrist 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 246 payments — averaging $333.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$63K
- Kerecis Limited$8K
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$4K
- Stryker$1K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Organogenesis Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 35 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $82,823 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.
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$166K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$62,06576%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,9395%
- Travel & lodging$6,5878%
- Food & beverage$7,0679%
- Education$2,2583%
- Entertainment$2180%
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.
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.
- Restrata Wound Matrix$62,528
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$7,812
- Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$7,691
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$7,691
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$7,691
- Baxdela$3,831
- PROstep$510
- GRAFIX PL$377
- KRYSTEXXA$360
- PuraPly$353
- HOFFMANN$295
- Prokera$269
- AmnioGraft$269
- AmnioGuard$269
- Grafix PL PRIME$246
- Stravix$238
- NUZYRA$232
- Apligraf$227
- Dermagraft$227
- Puraply/Affinity/NuTech$227
How this compares
$82,135 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 409 podiatrist providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Linezolid | 11 | $400 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 34 | $262 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $138 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Arlington Heights
- David YeagerMorrison$345K
- Paul KirchnerNew Lenox$143K
- William BushRockford$141K
- Daniel BrownHarrisburg$136K
- Timothy GrahamTaylorville$70K
- Paul PotachWheeling$45K
- Steven JasonowiczBarrington$34K
- Jaclyn SchumannJoliet$29K
- Zehra HyderiAlgonquin$27K
- Magdalena MarcinekAddison$26K
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.