Thomas Ehmke, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Western Springs, ILNPI 1861703233
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 151 payments — averaging $197.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$11K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
- Stryker$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Encore Medical, LP$975
- Zimmer Biomet$595
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,59959%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9753%
- Travel & lodging$4,12814%
- Food & beverage$7,08724%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 20 | $10,854 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $10,486 |
| Stryker | 48 | $3,814 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $1,658 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $975 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $595 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 5 | $225 |
| UOC USA Inc | 1 | $212 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $185 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 8 | $143 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $112 |
| Motive Health, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Pixee Medical Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $31 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Orthosensor Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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
$29,789 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 142 | $161 |
| Meloxicam | 40 | $129 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 28 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Western Springs
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Kamal IbrahimOakbrook Terrace$4.9M
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Steven MatherDowners Grove$4.3M
- Steven MardjetkoMorton Grove$4.3M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
- Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
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.