Rami Taha, MD
Infectious Disease · Libertyville, ILNPI 1881872588
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 40 payments — averaging $26.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$243
- AbbVie$172
- Organogenesis Inc.$146
- Johnson & Johnson$124
- Kerecis Limited$106
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$85
- plus $201 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$464%
- Food & beverage$1,01995%
- Education$121%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $243 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $172 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 8 | $146 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $124 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $106 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $85 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $25 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
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.
- XARELTO$124
How this compares
$1,077 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen | 27 | $103,655 |
| Daptomycin | 39 | $27,385 |
| ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium | 27 | $8,155 |
| Meropenem | 11 | $4,224 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 54 | $2,013 |
| Rifampin | 23 | $1,768 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 27 | $1,320 |
| Cephalexin | 47 | $1,290 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 25 | $1,202 |
| Cefepime Hcl | 14 | $1,166 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 25 | $1,039 |
| Cefdinir | 17 | $529 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 47 | $353 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 39 | $254 |
| Levofloxacin | 22 | $154 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in Libertyville
- Kathleen MullaneChicago$4.4M
- Gregory HuhnChicago$3M
- Catherine CreticosChicago$1.7M
- Babafemi TaiwoChicago$1.4M
- Shivanjali ShankaranChicago$1.1M
- Frank PalellaChicago$987K
- Kamaljit SinghChicago$971K
- Richard NovakChicago$960K
- Renslow ShererChicago$821K
- Russell PetrakBurr Ridge$623K
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.