Dermatopathology in Illinois
13 providers, $183,548 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 dermatopathology clinicians in Illinois
Across 9 dermatopathology clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,977,253 in total — an average of $219,695 each, of which $219,692 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
- 1Brian NickoloffMaywood$116,077
- 2Joan GuitartChicago$43,401
- 3Vesna Petronic RosicChicago$11,201
- 4George NahassGlen Carbon$4,883
- 5Kayla St ClaireChicago$4,395
- 6Kyla Price-JaureguiChicago$2,145
- 7Cuong NguyenChicago$413
- 8Carl SoderstromPeoria$385
- 9Suzanne BirminghamElgin$244
- 10Sara Kullberg PearsonChicago$150
- 11Eugen MincaNaperville$102
- 12Jodi SpeiserMaywood$102
- 13Lohini SundharkrishnanChicago$52