Veronika Kroin
Pediatrics · Wheeling, ILNPI 1740213925
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 105 payments — averaging $31.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sekisui Diagnostics LLC$995
- Merck$461
- GSK$292
- Pfizer$257
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$252
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$250
- plus $757 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$301%
- Food & beverage$2,23869%
- Gifts$99530%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sekisui Diagnostics LLC | 4 | $995 |
| Merck | 19 | $461 |
| GSK | 10 | $292 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $257 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 16 | $252 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 11 | $250 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $146 |
| Sobi, Inc | 6 | $140 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $102 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 4 | $80 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biogen | 1 | $16 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$3,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,058 pediatrics providers in Illinois.
Other pediatrics in Wheeling
- Amy PallerChicago$7M
- Jonathan RobertsPeoria$1.7M
- Mindy SimpsonChicago$1M
- Jonathan KaufmanBarrington$932K
- Jan BergerChicago$886K
- Linda LauxChicago$688K
- Mary SchmidtChicago$646K
- Eugene SuhMaywood$424K
- Ruchi GuptaChicago$390K
- Anita Chandra PuriChicago$367K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.