Has Tareq Kass-Hout, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $336,283 in general payments to Tareq Kass-Hout, MD across 390 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 Tareq Kass-Hout, 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 Tareq Kass-Hout, 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.

Tareq Kass-Hout, MD

Vascular Neurology · Chicago, ILNPI 1144513359

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (51.3%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Microvention, Inc. at 54.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $129,807, more than ten times the $323 reported in 2019. Among vascular neurology 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.

$336,283in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 390 payments — averaging $862.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Microvention, Inc.$182K
Imperative Care, Inc$35K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$33K
Philips North America LLC$19K
Medtronic$17K
Stryker$16K
plus $35K from 12 others

$78,041in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $19,510 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.

Microvention, Inc.$66K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$11K
Amgen$1K
Sim&cure Inc$150

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$106,02632%
Speaking & faculty fees$172,34751%
Travel & lodging$45,57414%
Food & beverage$11,6083%
Education$4500%
Gifts$40%
Entertainment$2740%

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
Microvention, Inc.	176	$181,730
Imperative Care, Inc	35	$35,113
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	30	$33,040
Philips North America LLC	17	$18,879
Medtronic	34	$16,959
Stryker	23	$15,631
Balt USA, LLC	14	$11,719
Ischemaview, Inc.	2	$8,119
ZOLL Medical Corporation	4	$4,241
Kaneka Medical America LLC	1	$3,000
Scientia Vascular	3	$2,637
Johnson & Johnson	23	$1,943
Route 92 Medical, Inc.	4	$1,724
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	6	$560
Rapid Medical Ltd	13	$432
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$298
Abbott	2	$143
SK Life Science, Inc.	1	$114

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.

WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$178,319
ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$28,770
EMBOGUARD$22,344
Azurion 7 B20$18,407
ONYX 18$11,411
TRUFILL$10,177
Embotrap$9,747
CEREPAK UNIFORM$9,500
Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$9,500
ZOOM RDL RADIAL ACCESS SYSTEM, 103CM$5,211
Optima Coil System$4,625
Defibrillator$4,241
Pipeline$4,043
WINGSPAN$4,000
Apheresis Machine$3,000
8F Base Camp Sheath System$1,313
SYNCHRO SELECT$1,300
ZOOM REPERFUSION CATHETER$1,014
FLOCONTROL$571
ARTIS icono biplane$352

How this compares

$336,283 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 32 vascular neurology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$139,604

Medicare patients

169

Services billed

440

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
EliquisApixaban	18	$13,835
BrilintaTicagrelor	12	$5,030
Ezetimibe	12	$438
Rosuvastatin Calcium	25	$434
Atorvastatin Calcium	11	$174
Losartan Potassium	11	$152

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular neurology in Chicago

Phillip GorelickChicago$269K
Richard BernsteinChicago$114K
Yvonne CurranChicago$26K
Fan CaprioChicago$9K
Lesli SkolarusChicago$8K
Monika ManchandaChicago$2K
Sebastian UrdayChicago$1K
Aisha AliChicago$640
Silvya SotoChicago$349
Gabriela TrifanChicago$126

See the full list for Illinois →

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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