Has Syed Hussain, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $211,337 in general payments to Syed Hussain, MD across 493 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 Syed Hussain, 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 Syed Hussain, 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.

Syed Hussain, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Kankakee, ILNPI 1245264324

Payments from drug & device makers

$211,337in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 493 payments — averaging $428.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$75K
Medtronic$64K
Endologix LLC$58K
Vasorum USA Inc.$8K
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$2K
Kerecis Limited$1K
plus $3K from 37 others

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
Johnson & Johnson	112	$75,065
Medtronic(2 entities)	181	$64,427
Endologix LLC	78	$58,037
Vasorum USA Inc.	6	$8,231
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	18	$2,052
Kerecis Limited	4	$1,019
Surmodics, Inc.	4	$367
Novartis	10	$224
Smith+Nephew	10	$188
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$178
Pfizer	11	$164
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	5	$135
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	3	$130
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$93
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	2	$89
Boston Scientific	4	$87
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$64
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.	3	$59
Biotronik Inc.	2	$56
Novo Nordisk	2	$55
Philips North America LLC	3	$53
Abbott	2	$52
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	2	$42
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.	2	$38
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$38
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$32
Cook Medical LLC	2	$31
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	2	$28
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	1	$28
Convatec Inc.	1	$26
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$26
Avinger Inc.	1	$24
Misonix Inc	1	$22
Imperative Care, Inc	1	$22
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	1	$22
Atricure, Inc.	1	$21
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	1	$19
Veryan Medical Incorporated	1	$18
Amgen	1	$17
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$16
Stryker	1	$15
Merck	1	$14
AstraZeneca	1	$13

How this compares

$211,337 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$105,176

Medicare patients

319

Services billed

799

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Kankakee

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Douglas JohnstonChicago$1.3M
Patrick McCarthyChicago$1.1M
Duc PhamChicago$529K
James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$366K
Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
Antone TatoolesOak Lawn$249K
Samuel KimChicago$221K
Christopher SalernoChicago$212K

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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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