William Watson, MD
Surgery · Libertyville, ILNPI 1447265871
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $187,625 of the $240,638 with a category attached, or 78.0%. Stryker accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $93,282, more than ten times the $5,539 reported in 2020. Among 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 229 payments — averaging $1050.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$234K
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$592
- Davol Inc.$245
- Johnson & Johnson$178
- Boston Scientific$29
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$187,62578%
- Travel & lodging$44,64519%
- Food & beverage$4,3682%
- Education$4,0002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 202 | $234,278 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $5,316 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $592 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $245 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $178 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
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.
- 1788$121,808
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$111,618
- 1688$58,277
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,896
- MAKO$900
- MATRIXRIB$529
- PHASIX$135
How this compares
$240,638 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,180 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 41 | $160 |
| Ibuprofen | 25 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Libertyville
- Jaishankar RamanBurr Ridge$1.6M
- Reza GamagamiNew Lenox$1.2M
- Francesco BiancoChicago$1M
- Mark KeldahlChicago$765K
- Barry RosenBarrington$443K
- Douglas JonesChampaign$425K
- Rami LutfiChicago$411K
- Paul VanaDowners Grove$368K
- Erik BorncampNew Lenox$364K
- Michael UjikiEvanston$276K
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.