Who Paid My Doc
Vasili Karas
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Chicago, IL Medical Doctor
NPI 1063778413 CMS profile 2788805
1611 W Harrison St Ste 400, Chicago, IL 60612
General payments
$263,806
Research payments
$6,000
Ownership & investment interest
$444,885
Research they led as principal investigator
$44,950
Through program year 2025, Vasili Karas of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $263,806 across 391 general payments and $6,000 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $44,950 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $444,885 across 2 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. 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 89th percentile of Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery 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 | $18,163 | 33 | |
| 2024 | General | $133,798 | 84 | |
| 2023 | General | $10,594 | 87 | |
| 2022 | General | $23,582 | 67 | |
| 2021 | General | $55,287 | 55 | |
| 2021 | Research | $6,000 | 1 | |
| 2020 | General | $10,159 | 22 | |
| 2019 | General | $12,224 | 43 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $222,443 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $222,443 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Vasili Karas
- Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery median
- Middle half of Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Vasili Karas were reported at $18,163. Among 1,079 Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $1,406 and the middle half received between $318 and $8,709.
Show as a table
| Year | Vasili Karas | Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $12,224 | $1,416 | $292–$9,336 | $163 |
| 2020 | $10,159 | $647 | $141–$6,474 | $114 |
| 2021 | $55,287 | $1,073 | $211–$6,497 | $132 |
| 2022 | $23,582 | $1,217 | $236–$6,299 | $149 |
| 2023 | $10,594 | $1,082 | $246–$6,818 | $160 |
| 2024 | $133,798 | $1,575 | $323–$8,944 | $164 |
| 2025 | $18,163 | $1,406 | $318–$8,709 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 18 drugsPart D claims
1,943
Drug cost
$19,673
Branded share of claims
7.7%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 15 | $8,226 | |
| Meloxicam | Generic | 330 | $1,423 | |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | Generic | 139 | $1,306 | |
| Ondansetron Odt Ondansetron | Brand | 114 | $1,252 | |
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 286 | $1,147 | |
| Cefadroxil | Generic | 83 | $1,093 | |
| Oxycodone Hcl | Generic | 170 | $900 | |
| Diclofenac Sodium | Generic | 70 | $819 | |
| Mupirocin | Generic | 117 | $762 | |
| Celecoxib | Generic | 19 | $635 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 18 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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 70 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$667,043
Medicare patients
1,012
Services billed
18,648
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 71% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 24% | |
| Diabetes | 23% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 17% | |
| Depression | 17% | |
| Osteoporosis | 15% | |
| Cancer | 14% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyaluronan or derivative, gel-one, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7326 | Office | 38 | 50 | $19,986 |
| Hyaluronan or derivative, monovisc, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7327 | Office | 27 | 31 | $16,253 |
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, preservative-free, extended-release, microsphere formulation, 1 mg J3304 | Office | 19 | 928 | $12,739 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 | Office | 124 | 13,162 | $1,315 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 | Office | 56 | 146 | $622 |
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
392 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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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.