Has Traves Crabtree, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,908 in general payments to Traves Crabtree, MD across 63 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 Traves Crabtree, 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 Traves Crabtree, 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.

Traves Crabtree, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Springfield, ILNPI 1790703429

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,908in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $204.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$8K
Medtronic$2K
Medela LLC$2K
Covidien LP$186
Johnson & Johnson$92
Atricure, Inc.$56

$19,895in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $6631.83 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.

Medtronic$20K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,80014%
Travel & lodging$4,08132%
Food & beverage$1,49712%
Education$5,52943%

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
Intuitive Surgical	35	$8,400
Medtronic	21	$2,375
Medela LLC	1	$1,800
Covidien LP	2	$186
Johnson & Johnson	2	$92
Atricure, Inc.	2	$56

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$7,670
Art. 101030215 Thopaz+ Chest Drainage$1,800
LigaSure$152

How this compares

$12,908 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$188,285

Medicare patients

390

Services billed

725

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
Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl	32	$359

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Jeffrey ChristySpringfield$21K
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Douglas JohnstonChicago$1.3M
Patrick McCarthyChicago$1.1M
Duc PhamChicago$529K
James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$366K

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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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