Thomas Cartolano, DO
Surgical Critical Care · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1366688632
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $25,253 of the $34,136 with a category attached, or 74.0%. Kerecis Limited accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $31,547, more than ten times the $997 reported in 2019. Among surgical critical care 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 63 payments — averaging $541.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kerecis Limited$32K
- Zimmer Biomet$896
- Atricure, Inc.$182
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$160
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$138
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$125
- plus $529 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1230%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,25374%
- Travel & lodging$4,97115%
- Food & beverage$3,79011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerecis Limited | 30 | $32,105 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $896 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $182 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $123 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $109 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $75 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $33 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $31 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $26 |
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
$34,136 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 63 surgical critical care 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.
Other surgical critical care in Oak Lawn
- Jafar HaghshenasOak Lawn$5K
- David McElmeelOak Lawn$3K
- Hadi ShaabanMcHenry$44K
- Alexander SauperChicago$41K
- Felipe GraciasTinley Park$23K
- Abigail TarboxChicago$14K
- Khafra Garcia HenryChicago$13K
- Nikhil PatelPark Ridge$12K
- John KubasiakMaywood$11K
- Andrea RomanoChicago$7K
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.