William Polito, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Elgin, ILNPI 1992744288
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 70.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,008, 2.1 times the $3,264 reported in 2019.
Across 100 payments — averaging $134.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$9K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$966
- Medtronic$958
- Atricure, Inc.$375
- Cook Medical LLC$114
- plus $89 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,02045%
- Travel & lodging$2,82121%
- Food & beverage$4,58034%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 52 | $9,455 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $1,462 |
| Abbott | 17 | $966 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $958 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $375 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $114 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $89 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$7,402
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$828
- CoreValve Evolut$678
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$596
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$454
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$418
- Mitra Clip system$388
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$274
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$132
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$118
- Cook Medical Zilver PTX$101
How this compares
$13,420 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $166 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Elgin
- Cynthia SteimleElgin$36K
- James GrammOlympia Fields$386K
- Jessica DoningtonChicago$314K
- S Christopher MalaisrieChicago$254K
- Patrick McCarthyChicago$241K
- Samuel KimChicago$221K
- Andrew ArndtWinfield$206K
- Douglas JohnstonChicago$205K
- Gianluca TorregrossaChicago$197K
- Valluvan JeevanandamChicago$193K
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.