Victor Romano, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · River Forest, ILNPI 1033149901
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 269 payments — averaging $96.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$15K
- Medwest Associates$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Smith+Nephew$582
- plus $3K from 41 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,44252%
- Travel & lodging$1,3595%
- Food & beverage$8,57033%
- Education$2,62710%
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.
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.
- EVENITY$13,144
- Prolia$1,315
- CORAIL$660
- GAMMA$161
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$142
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$134
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$133
- ATTUNE$121
- EMPHASYS$109
How this compares
$25,999 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 107 | $5,508 |
| Ibuprofen | 71 | $609 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 21 | $573 |
| Naproxen | 22 | $208 |
| Amoxicillin | 16 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in River Forest
- 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.