Walter Tatch
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery · Gurnee, ILNPI 1285714568
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by gifts: $112,828 of the $128,299 with a category attached, or 87.9%. Straumann USA LLC accounts for 95.7% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $50,271 and has fallen 84.5% since, to $7,800 in 2025. Among oral & maxillofacial 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 264 payments — averaging $485.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Straumann USA LLC$123K
- Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.$2K
- Henry Schein, Inc.$2K
- Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc.$352
- Thommen Medical USA, LLC$179
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$128
- plus $349 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,3498%
- Food & beverage$4,0413%
- Education$1,0001%
- Gifts$112,82888%
- Entertainment$810%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Straumann USA LLC | 170 | $122,801 |
| Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc. | 64 | $2,491 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. | 14 | $352 |
| Thommen Medical USA, LLC | 1 | $179 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 3 | $128 |
| Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba ACE Southern) | 2 | $118 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $77 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Nobel Biocare USA | 1 | $32 |
| ACE Surgical Supply Co., Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 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
$128,299 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 294 oral & maxillofacial surgery providers in Illinois.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 353 | $1,012 |
| Ibuprofen | 274 | $581 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 308 | $553 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 79 | $294 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $85 |
| Azithromycin | 12 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other oral & maxillofacial surgery in Gurnee
- Laura GartGurnee$22K
- Russell BaerChicago$146K
- Louis MercuriMaywood$103K
- Michael MiloroChicago$97K
- Shuaib MalikOak Lawn$64K
- Akanksha SrivastavaChicago$34K
- George KotsakisHoffman Estates$28K
- Stephen MacleodMaywood$28K
- Jordan LedgerChicago$21K
- David HansonChicago$20K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.