Adult Medicine in Illinois
39 providers, $100,622 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $136.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays adult medicine clinicians in Illinois
Across 20 adult medicine clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,292,035 in total — an average of $64,602 each, of which $61,901 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Gary BucherChicago$54,111
- 2Thomas KleinChicago$27,370
- 3Ross SlottenChicago$4,673
- 4Nereida RojasChicago$3,954
- 5Amanda WildermanCarbondale$2,828
- 6Josephine ManteAurora$1,444
- 7Josie TenoreHighland Park$1,375
- 8Sofiya EltermanBuffalo Grove$769
- 9June LeeCrest Hill$672
- 10Konstantins KociasviliGlenview$534
- 11Wesley HarmstonChicago$277
- 12Mariya Dmytriv-KapeniakChicago$251
- 13Carl VancolChicago$248
- 14Ashwin KumarAurora$237
- 15Nabanita BhowmickElgin$194
- 16Doris WilliamsChatham$179
- 17Lawrence LernerEast Dundee$154
- 18Sarah TariqMarion$152
- 19Nicholas NikitasGurnee$137
- 20Joel AlfecheDanville$136
- 21Sapna JacobLibertyville$127
- 22Carol Hayes SharpleyChicago$112
- 23Karen Duenas RuizChicago$101
- 24Robert TanneyBuffalo Grove$89
- 25Rickquel TrippChicago$61
- 26Santina WheatChicago$57
- 27Matthew HillGlenview$57
- 28Juan ZabaletaNorridge$49
- 29Joseph OlingerGurnee$49
- 30Anita CaraniChicago$40
- 31Nastane le BecChicago$36
- 32Dorian FinderChicago$28
- 33Katie Muhammad-ReedChicago$24
- 34Mirela GalatanuOak Lawn$21
- 35Nathan NavarroChicago$19
- 36Emanuela KulachLong Grove$18
- 37Neil PatelRockford$14
- 38Suman SetiaEvergreen Park$14
- 39Lloyd CallawayWoodridge$13