Who Paid My Doc
Erik Kulstad
Emergency Medicine Chicago, IL Medical Doctor
NPI 1518967751 CMS profile 1004614
1501 S California Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
General payments
$109,207
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$75,872
Through program year 2025, Erik Kulstad of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $109,207 across 22 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $75,872 across 5 holdings.
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.
General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Emergency Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
10 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $68,049 | 10 | |
| 2024 | General | $40,486 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $300 | 4 | |
| 2022 | General | $237 | 4 | |
| 2019 | General | $135 | 2 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $42,949 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $13,032 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $10,974 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $5,487 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $3,430 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Erik Kulstad
- Emergency Medicine median
- Middle half of Emergency Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Erik Kulstad were reported at $68,049. Among 10,690 Emergency Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $57 and the middle half received between $24 and $150.
Show as a table
| Year | Erik Kulstad | Emergency Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $135 | $51 | $18–$128 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $29 | $16–$99 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $40 | $18–$124 | $132 |
| 2022 | $237 | $49 | $20–$134 | $149 |
| 2023 | $300 | $51 | $22–$142 | $160 |
| 2024 | $40,486 | $52 | $22–$150 | $164 |
| 2025 | $68,049 | $57 | $24–$150 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
22 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.