Melanie Makhija
Allergy & Immunology · Chicago, ILNPI 1790094423
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $48,606 of the $55,727 with a category attached, or 87.2%. Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 82.1% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $45,020 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $3,625 in 2023.
Across 48 payments — averaging $1160.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$46K
- Grifols USA, LLC$7K
- Regeneron$3K
- Genentech, Inc.$36
- AstraZeneca$17
Across 73 payments — averaging $4737.17 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Regeneron$232K
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$112K
- Novartis$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,2306%
- Speaking & faculty fees$48,60687%
- Travel & lodging$3,4016%
- Food & beverage$4891%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 40 | $45,728 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 5 | $6,715 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $3,230 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$55,727 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 161 allergy & immunology providers in Illinois.
Other allergy & immunology in Chicago
- Anju PetersChicago$563K
- Giselle MosnaimChicago$331K
- Amanda SalihChicago$160K
- Juanita MoraChicago$147K
- Christina CiaccioChicago$73K
- Michael FoggsChicago$71K
- Whitney StevensChicago$34K
- Andrea Pappalardo WlochowiczChicago$33K
- Krishan ChhibaChicago$23K
- Sharmilee NyenhuisChicago$21K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.