Orthopaedic Surgery in Illinois
844 providers, $109,130,863 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,100.
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 orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Illinois
Across 528 orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $106,691,048 in total — an average of $202,066 each, of which $182,870 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
- 1Peter BonuttiEffingham$24,294,201
- 2Steven HaddadGlenview$12,556,080
- 3Aaron RosenbergChicago$12,415,629
- 4Treg BrownHerrin$6,550,704
- 5Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4,912,037
- 6Steven ChudikWestmont$4,058,044
- 7Matthew SquireAurora$2,868,559
- 8David ManningBurr Ridge$2,349,537
- 9Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2,250,589
- 10Anish KadakiaChicago$2,114,463
- 11Kamal IbrahimOakbrook Terrace$1,924,562
- 12Wellington HsuChicago$1,675,924
- 13Ken YamaguchiChicago$1,673,033
- 14Scott TrenhaileRockford$1,651,490
- 15Ravi BashyalSkokie$1,611,663
- 16Guido MarraChicago$1,198,084
- 17Ashish PatelElmhurst$1,133,008
- 18Hue LuuChicago$1,103,125
- 19Mark SchinskyDes Plaines$1,077,969
- 20Alpesh PatelChicago$916,640
- 21Samuel StulbergChicago$851,674
- 22Lalit PuriSkokie$843,786
- 23Adam SchiffMaywood$806,345
- 24George MizFlossmoor$767,894
- 25Gregory WitkowskiWarrenville$750,096
- 26Cary TemplinJoliet$739,945
- 27Richard BergerChicago$617,538
- 28Rajeev JainSycamore$556,640
- 29Michael DurkinHinsdale$537,806
- 30Geoffrey van ThielRockford$351,260
- 31Steven MatherDowners Grove$350,218
- 32Dane SalazarMaywood$348,144
- 33Ari KazChicago$343,116
- 34Steven GitelisChicago$323,969
- 35Daniel ParkChicago$320,626
- 36Rajeev GarapatiMorton Grove$319,211
- 37Steven MardjetkoMorton Grove$287,789
- 38Paul DefrinoPalos Heights$253,499
- 39Robert GolzHerrin$251,525
- 40Steven YoungHerrin$250,564
- 41Alexander CrespoChicago$228,862
- 42Tomasz AntkowiakBradley$221,707
- 43Lewis ShiChicago$220,473
- 44Nicholas BrownMaywood$220,429
- 45Gunnar AnderssonChicago$214,587
- 46James MaxeyPeoria$196,312
- 47Armen KelikianChicago$187,094
- 48Nickolas GarbisMaywood$179,017
- 49Aaron BareWarrenville$174,731
- 50Brian BearRockford$167,851
- 51John StirtonAlton$165,270
- 52Islam ElboghdadyNaperville$155,143
- 53Steven SternChicago$153,335
- 54Thomas SmithLombard$151,679
- 55Hasham AlviSchaumburg$148,660
- 56Brian WeatherfordGlenview$146,494
- 57Dalip PelinkovicNaperville$139,424
- 58Kenneth SandersNaperville$139,013
- 59Chintan SampatJoliet$133,682
- 60Daniel SchmittMaywood$125,329