Epilepsy in Illinois
24 providers, $368,619 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $728.
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 epilepsy clinicians in Illinois
Across 20 epilepsy clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,023,798 in total — an average of $51,190 each, of which $51,190 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
- 1Stephan SchueleChicago$226,863
- 2Kapil GururanganChicago$107,555
- 3Hiba HaiderChicago$9,016
- 4Vinita AcharyaSpringfield$5,050
- 5Elizabeth GerardChicago$4,125
- 6Kristen ZeminaEvanston$3,933
- 7Jaeho HwangChicago$2,581
- 8Nirmal JacobPeoria$2,193
- 9Anna SerafiniChicago$1,142
- 10James TaoChicago$1,065
- 11Jeffrey LoebChicago$942
- 12Shasha WuChicago$728
- 13Alexa KingChicago$700
- 14Naoum IssaChicago$680
- 15Yara Mikhaeil-DemoChicago$487
- 16Scott AdneyChicago$438
- 17Jennifer OlsonChicago$393
- 18Julia BodnyaChicago$198
- 19Stephen VanhaerentsChicago$148
- 20Todd ChatlosChicago$122
- 21Lydia WolkiewiczChicago$102
- 22Peter WrigleyUrbana$89
- 23Cody NathanChicago$44
- 24Jessica TemplerChicago$24