Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Tae Kim

Surgery Highland Park, IL Medical Doctor

NPI 1780047076 CMS profile 8322089

757 Park Ave W Ste 2850, Ste 2850, Highland Park, IL 60035

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General payments

$3,346

20 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Tae Kim of Highland Park, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,346 across 20 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 62nd percentile of Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $379 4
2024 General $1,011 4
2023 General $223 2
2022 General $1,336 6
2021 General $299 3
2020 General $98 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Tae Kim
  • Surgery median
  • Middle half of Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Tae Kim were reported at $379. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.

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Year Tae Kim Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $253 $82–$1,521 $163
2020 $98 $131 $40–$706 $114
2021 $299 $168 $50–$904 $132
2022 $1,336 $224 $76–$1,218 $149
2023 $223 $253 $82–$1,255 $160
2024 $1,011 $279 $90–$1,381 $164
2025 $379 $280 $91–$1,259 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $2,526 12 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $390 3 payments
  3. Ethicon US, LLC $118 1 payment
  4. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $101 1 payment
  5. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $98 1 payment
  6. Innovation Technologies Inc $97 1 payment
  7. Boston Scientific Corporation $16 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,557 17 payments
  2. Education $1,000 1 payment
  3. Travel and Lodging $789 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System $1,526 11 payments
  2. DAVINCI XI $1,000 1 payment
  3. Signia $267 2 payments
  4. LigaSure $124 1 payment
  5. Echelon Flex $118 1 payment
  6. Echelon Circular $118 1 payment
  7. Enseal $118 1 payment
  8. BRIDION $98 1 payment
  9. Irrisept $97 1 payment
  10. Axonics $16 1 payment

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 · 6 drugs

Part D claims

177

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): 106

Drug cost

$525

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): $1,614

Branded share of claims

9%

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): 35.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Peg-3350 And Electrolytes Peg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl Brand 16 $212
Neomycin Sulfate Generic 30 $118
Gabapentin Generic 45 $82
Metronidazole Generic 30 $42
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 17 $37
Tramadol Hcl Generic 39 $35

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 1,507 Part D prescribers listed as Colorectal Surgery (Proctology); they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 54 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$49,797

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

121

Average age 73

Services billed

301

69 women, 52 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 42%
Cancer 41%
Arthritis 41%
Diabetes 34%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Heart failure 29%
COPD 27%

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

20 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 2025

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

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