Trissa Babrowski
Vascular Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1205166873
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (51.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 57.6% of the total. Among vascular surgery 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 443 payments — averaging $659.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$168K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$81K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$35K
- Stryker$5K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$748
- plus $2K from 5 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $7300.00 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.
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$38K
- Medtronic$20K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$92,09032%
- Speaking & faculty fees$150,97652%
- Travel & lodging$33,05211%
- Food & beverage$15,8165%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 292 | $168,233 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 96 | $80,773 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 23 | $34,679 |
| Stryker | 4 | $4,761 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $1,192 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 7 | $748 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 8 | $719 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $465 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $129 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $120 |
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$87,595
- GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$50,268
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$47,508
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$40,762
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$38,065
- Valiant Captivia$37,670
- C3 Delivery System$37,348
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$34,538
- Valiant Navion$18,100
- Endurant$16,291
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$15,160
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$11,400
- Product in Development$7,085
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$6,024
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$5,823
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$5,823
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$3,617
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$3,135
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$1,882
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,425
How this compares
$291,954 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 170 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 19 | $11,171 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $9,169 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 31 | $155 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Chicago
- Ross MilnerChicago$1.3M
- Heron RodriguezChicago$105K
- Mark EskandariChicago$51K
- Calvin ChaoChicago$39K
- Clayton BrinsterChicago$34K
- Neel MansukhaniChicago$28K
- Matthew ChiaChicago$25K
- Margaret ReillyChicago$23K
- Courtney FurloughChicago$23K
- Andrew RusseauChicago$23K
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.