Sonali Chaudhury
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology · Chicago, ILNPI 1245458496
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $38,763 of the $53,098 with a category attached, or 73.0%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vertex at 43.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $41,065, more than ten times the $2,026 reported in 2019.
Across 63 payments — averaging $842.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$23K
- AstraZeneca$13K
- Genetix Biotherapeutics Inc$7K
- Mesoblast, Inc.$3K
- Novartis$2K
- Medexus Pharma, Inc.$2K
- plus $2K from 6 others
Across 142 payments — averaging $14,137 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.
- Gilead$732K
- National Marrow Donor Program$447K
- AstraZeneca$430K
- AbbVie$224K
- Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company$66K
- Novartis$65K
- plus $44K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$38,76373%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0138%
- Travel & lodging$8,44716%
- Food & beverage$1,8764%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex | 21 | $23,288 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $13,043 |
| Genetix Biotherapeutics Inc | 13 | $7,452 |
| Mesoblast, Inc. | 1 | $3,125 |
| Novartis | 11 | $2,142 |
| Medexus Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $2,040 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $1,450 |
| Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $211 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Gilead | 1 | $116 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $87 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $24 |
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
$53,098 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 78 pediatric hematology-oncology providers in Illinois.
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Other pediatric hematology-oncology in Chicago
- Alexis ThompsonChicago$1.6M
- Sherif BadawyChicago$329K
- Leonard ValentinoChicago$132K
- Susan CohnChicago$127K
- James LabelleChicago$88K
- Miriam BornhorstChicago$83K
- Loretta LiChicago$75K
- Stewart GoldmanChicago$51K
- David JacobsohnChicago$38K
- Angela WaandersChicago$32K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.