Yalini Vigneswaran
Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1285916403
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 160 payments — averaging $123.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$903
- plus $2K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7804%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5003%
- Travel & lodging$4,76424%
- Food & beverage$7,71439%
- Education$5,95030%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 67 | $10,343 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 25 | $2,292 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 9 | $1,696 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 21 | $1,441 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 11 | $1,001 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $903 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $807 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $602 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $174 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $125 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $115 |
| Merck | 1 | $87 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,615
- Olympus Laparoscopes$1,539
- Olympus Laparoscopic Accessories$1,539
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,332
- LINX Reflux Management System$984
- Olympus Laparoscopic Insufflation$959
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$610
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$575
- HARMONIC Product Family$552
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$260
- STRATAFIX$228
- Harmonic$226
- Echelon Flex$226
- Monarch Platform$225
- ProdiGI$174
- HemoBlast Bellows$174
- Signia$168
- EsoFlip$149
- Bravo$142
- Stravix$125
How this compares
$19,708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Other surgery in Chicago
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- Shabirhusain AbadinChicago$212K
- Jonah StulbergChicago$209K
- Julie DunderdaleChicago$205K
- Pier GiulianottiChicago$135K
- Richard ZhuChicago$128K
- Eric HungnessChicago$126K
- Kyle MuellerChicago$117K
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.