Oncology in Illinois
18 providers, $196,760 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 oncology clinicians in Illinois
Across 5 oncology clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $51,252 in total — an average of $10,250 each, of which $10,250 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
- 1Kimberly RohanNaperville$192,181
- 2Margaret GregusHinsdale$1,264
- 3Barbara GordonChicago$875
- 4Carla SmithQuincy$489
- 5Evelyn GallinaitisMaywood$365
- 6Jill BenedeckMcHenry$294
- 7Melissa ArangoaChicago$281
- 8Magan SchwartzWarrenville$215
- 9Karen GiammicchioSchaumburg$156
- 10Mona SeaverGeneva$153
- 11Maryanne FishmanChicago$120
- 12Mary WellesChicago$120
- 13Catherine HertzHines$74
- 14Margaret OndreyManteno$55
- 15Alyssa GrissomOak Lawn$48
- 16Kimberly ValachovicChicago$26
- 17Jessica VargasChicago$22
- 18Malgorzata SokolowskiPark Ridge$21