Medical Doctor Program year 2019 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Chad Achenbach

Infectious Disease Chicago, IL Medical Doctor

NPI 1548278674 CMS profile 160314

645 N Michigan Ave, Suite 900, Chicago, IL 60611

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General payments

$4,159

9 records reported · program year 2019

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program year 2019

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$247,707 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2019, Chad Achenbach of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,159 across 9 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $247,707 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 80th percentile of Infectious Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

1 row
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2019 General $4,159 9

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Chad Achenbach
  • Infectious Disease median
  • Middle half of Infectious Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Chad Achenbach were reported at $0. Among 3,905 Infectious Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $188 and the middle half received between $57 and $766.

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Year Chad Achenbach Infectious Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $4,159 $190 $60–$862 $163
2020 $0 $124 $32–$606 $114
2021 $0 $148 $38–$905 $132
2022 $0 $166 $50–$834 $149
2023 $0 $171 $57–$787 $160
2024 $0 $176 $52–$752 $164
2025 $0 $188 $57–$766 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program year 2019
  1. ViiV Healthcare Company $4,071 6 payments
  2. Janssen Products, LP $63 2 payments
  3. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $25 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program year 2019
  1. Consulting Fee $3,600 1 payment
  2. Travel and Lodging $398 3 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $133 4 payments
  4. Education $29 1 payment
Products named General payments · program year 2019
  1. SYMTUZA $63 2 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 20 drugs

Part D claims

518

Median for Infectious Disease: 268

Drug cost

$1,113,413

Median for Infectious Disease: $217,595

Branded share of claims

71.4%

Median for Infectious Disease: 45.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Biktarvy Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala Brand 71 $322,945
Dovato Dolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine Brand 65 $190,557
Genvoya Elviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen Brand 33 $143,930
Descovy Emtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam Brand 39 $96,535
Tivicay Dolutegravir Sodium Brand 34 $84,640
Prezcobix Darunavir/Cobicistat Brand 20 $69,116
Juluca Dolutegravir/Rilpivirine Brand 16 $62,953
Symtuza Darunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf Brand 12 $58,454
Isentress Raltegravir Potassium Brand 26 $56,994
Etravirine Generic 12 $14,999

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 20 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,546 Part D prescribers listed as Infectious Disease; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 13 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$13,476

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

98

Average age 68

Services billed

173

38 women, 60 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 50%
Arthritis 46%
Chronic kidney disease 44%
Heart failure 42%
Diabetes 34%
Atrial fibrillation 33%
Depression 29%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

9 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2019

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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