Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2019–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

George Bakris

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Chicago, IL Medical Doctor

NPI 1821021619 CMS profile 263633

5841 S Maryland Ave, # L138, Chicago, IL 60637

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General payments

$402,814

359 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Research payments

$42,932

Paid to them · 15 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$25,960 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2021

Through program year 2024, George Bakris of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $402,814 across 359 general payments and $42,932 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $25,960 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 97th percentile of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

12 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $7,710 13
2024 Research $850 2
2023 General $35,444 58
2023 Research $5,353 2
2022 General $80,269 66
2022 Research $18,729 6
2021 General $59,535 57
2021 Research $6,600 1
2020 General $65,329 46
2020 Research $4,400 3
2019 General $154,528 119
2019 Research $7,000 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • George Bakris
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism median
  • Middle half of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to George Bakris were reported at $0. Among 5,868 Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism profiles paid that year, the median was $507 and the middle half received between $135 and $1,838.

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Year George Bakris Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism median Middle half National median
2019 $154,528 $494 $123–$2,253 $163
2020 $65,329 $335 $85–$1,841 $114
2021 $59,535 $398 $88–$1,981 $132
2022 $80,269 $364 $88–$1,568 $149
2023 $35,444 $420 $113–$1,614 $160
2024 $7,710 $440 $121–$1,646 $164
2025 $0 $507 $135–$1,838 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $138,351 126 payments
  2. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC $38,915 11 payments
  3. Novo Nordisk Inc $35,371 40 payments
  4. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $23,555 27 payments
  5. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $20,709 32 payments
  6. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $18,869 13 payments
  7. Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $17,390 11 payments
  8. AstraZeneca UK Limited $15,123 9 payments
  9. Novo Nordisk AS $14,315 9 payments
  10. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $12,540 9 payments
  11. Other $67,677 72 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Consulting Fee $282,956 120 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $62,329 95 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $47,282 18 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $8,130 123 payments
  5. Honoraria $2,075 1 payment
  6. Education $41 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Kerendia $82,603 80 payments
  2. Non-Covered $37,260 27 payments
  3. Victoza $27,077 21 payments
  4. INVOKANA $26,503 21 payments
  5. AVAPRO $26,395 5 payments
  6. Non-Covered $22,111 10 payments
  7. Veltassa $11,807 16 payments
  8. FARXIGA $10,716 7 payments
  9. NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED $10,312 5 payments
  10. MICARDIS $6,394 2 payments
  11. Other $26,513 68 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Novo Nordisk AS $34,229 12 payments
  2. Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $7,000 1 payment
  3. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $1,703 2 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 5 drugs

Part D claims

91

Median for Endocrinology: 1,959

Drug cost

$1,590

Median for Endocrinology: $890,201

Branded share of claims

12.1%

Median for Endocrinology: 57%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Amlodipine-Olmesartan Amlodipine Bes/Olmesartan Med Brand 11 $896
Amlodipine Besylate Generic 32 $223
Olmesartan Medoxomil Generic 18 $197
Carvedilol Generic 17 $157
Spironolactone Generic 13 $116

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 6,527 Part D prescribers listed as Endocrinology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 3 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$4,486

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

57

Average age 76

Services billed

67

40 women, 17 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%
Chronic kidney disease 68%
Arthritis 58%
Diabetes 49%
Ischemic heart disease 42%
Heart failure 39%
Osteoporosis 26%
Atrial fibrillation 21%

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.

Payments and prescribing

3 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Victoza
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $1,575
$1,575 — —
LOKELMA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $750
$750 — —
Kerendia
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $150
$150 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

374 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 2024

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

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