Emergency Medicine in Illinois
2,434 providers, $1,963,426 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $17.
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 emergency medicine clinicians in Illinois
Across 2,186 emergency medicine clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $133,000,503 in total — an average of $60,842 each, of which $55,769 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
- 1Kristen FergusonSpringfield$510,844
- 2Christopher RossChicago$131,505
- 3Erik KulstadChicago$109,207
- 4Philip MitchellNormal$106,719
- 5Adam GoodcoffChicago$97,576
- 6Walter BradleyRock Island$90,373
- 7Pratik MehtaChicago$74,369
- 8Janet LinChicago$65,805
- 9Yanina Purim Shem TovChicago$59,834
- 10Robert TurelliChicago$50,519
- 11Michael KurzChicago$47,887
- 12Jonathan HandlerNorthbrook$40,738
- 13Mark CichonMaywood$36,488
- 14Dionisio YorroGurnee$35,480
- 15Leslie ZunGlenview$30,815
- 16Stephen GrahamWinfield$17,956
- 17Theodore KoutouzisChicago$16,565
- 18James ParkUrbana$14,473
- 19Colin McCloskeyChicago$13,007
- 20David BarounisNaperville$12,827
- 21Navtej SandhuNaperville$11,710
- 22Michael McCormickEvanston$10,894
- 23Kimberly StanfordChicago$10,255
- 24Jaime HarperChicago$9,924
- 25Lisa DavisSilvis$9,633
- 26Robert MarshallChicago$8,716
- 27Andrew CostelloChicago$8,700
- 28Kevin AisterWinfield$7,972
- 29Alyssa RotoloChicago$7,675
- 30Claire AbramoffChicago$7,213
- 31Diana GoodwineOttawa$6,038
- 32Emilie PerigoChicago$5,363
- 33Talha AhmedDekalb$5,197
- 34Wayne BlevinsCarlinville$5,163
- 35Wakas AhmadOak Lawn$5,033
- 36Ravi ChackoOak Lawn$5,000
- 37George ChiampasChicago$4,500
- 38Michael SchindlebeckChicago$4,146
- 39Brigham TempleEvanston$4,026
- 40Joseph PalterChicago$3,934
- 41Martin FortierWood Dale$3,800
- 42Jared MarcucciRiverside$3,714
- 43Paul BlessingChicago$3,550
- 44James ThomasBelleville$3,456
- 45Andrew YoungChicago$3,320
- 46Daewon KimJoliet$3,265
- 47Tapan BhattChicago$2,883
- 48Rahul KhareChicago$2,812
- 49Samir PatelOak Lawn$2,771
- 50David HillChicago$2,523
- 51Tulika SinghChicago$2,309
- 52Jon WagnonGodfrey$2,285
- 53Joseph MittonEvanston$2,006
- 54Justin Macariola-CoadElmhurst$1,998
- 55Matthew NitscheJoliet$1,981
- 56Asmita PatelOak Lawn$1,908
- 57Richard JosephNaperville$1,819
- 58Vikas PatelArlington Heights$1,808
- 59Shayna AdamsChicago$1,792
- 60Leon EydelmanOak Lawn$1,764