Frank Palella, MD
Infectious Disease · Chicago, ILNPI 1952329021
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 801 payments — averaging $1231.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$435K
- Gilead$335K
- Janssen Products, LP$154K
- EMD Serono, Inc.$40K
- Merck$16K
- Theratechnologies Inc.$7K
- plus $157 from 2 others
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 323 | $435,476 |
| Gilead | 305 | $334,713 |
| Janssen Products, LP | 127 | $154,424 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 18 | $39,864 |
| Merck | 14 | $15,530 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 7 | $6,535 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $90 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $67 |
How this compares
$986,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 368 infectious disease providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other infectious disease in Chicago
- Kathleen MullaneChicago$4.4M
- Gregory HuhnChicago$3M
- Catherine CreticosChicago$1.7M
- Babafemi TaiwoChicago$1.4M
- Shivanjali ShankaranChicago$1.1M
- Kamaljit SinghChicago$971K
- Richard NovakChicago$960K
- Renslow ShererChicago$821K
- Mariam AzizChicago$491K
- Aniruddha HazraChicago$486K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.