Ying Hao Lai, MD
Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1104116847
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 201 payments — averaging $247.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$42K
- Kerecis Limited$4K
- Davol Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$471
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$270
- Solventum Corporation$195
- plus $188 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3251%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,7508%
- Travel & lodging$5,93612%
- Food & beverage$9,79320%
- Education$30,00060%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 119 | $41,863 |
| Kerecis Limited | 47 | $3,811 |
| Davol Inc. | 22 | $3,020 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $471 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $270 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $195 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $71 |
| BD | 1 | $58 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $13 |
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$36,438
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$4,949
- Kerecis SurgiClose$4,500
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$4,319
- DA VINCI SP$3,750
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$1,385
- Kerecis GraftGuide$1,125
- Phasix Mesh$833
- Palindrome$325
- V.A.C. INSTILL$195
- PHASIX$152
- TRANSORB$133
How this compares
$49,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 | 66 | $247 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $117 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Chicago
- Francesco BiancoChicago$1.2M
- Mark KeldahlChicago$765K
- Rami LutfiChicago$411K
- 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.