Cornea and External Diseases Specialist in Illinois
19 providers, $30,948 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
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 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in Illinois
Across 15 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,074,296 in total — an average of $138,286 each, of which $138,286 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
- 1Rachel EpsteinHighland Park$6,409
- 2Charles BouchardMaywood$4,024
- 3Harold SyChicago$3,841
- 4Carter KirkRiver Forest$3,591
- 5Emily JacobsStickney$2,976
- 6Nahrain SchumaierChicago$2,645
- 7Andrea Arteaga UsecheChicago$1,561
- 8Kai KangWheaton$1,146
- 9Anna ParkWheaton$934
- 10Jennifer ParkChicago$881
- 11Janet LeeWheaton$653
- 12Christina MamalisMaywood$578
- 13Avrey ThauChicago$502
- 14Aaron DotsonMaywood$358
- 15Roshni VasaiwalaCarol Stream$244
- 16Raiza PerezChicago$236
- 17Taylor StarnesMaywood$187
- 18Farshad AbediChicago$145
- 19Hajirah SaeedChicago$37