Pediatric Otolaryngology in Illinois
20 providers, $72,076 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $311.
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 pediatric otolaryngology clinicians in Illinois
Across 5 pediatric otolaryngology clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $224,262 in total — an average of $44,852 each, of which $44,852 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
- 1Nancy YoungChicago$43,406
- 2Stephen HoffChicago$9,325
- 3David WalnerPark Ridge$9,151
- 4Eileen MahoneyHinsdale$3,767
- 5Dana ThompsonChicago$1,736
- 6Inbal Hazkani BendrorChicago$1,189
- 7Veronica Drozdowski-NuccioChicago$1,045
- 8Shilpa CherukupallyLombard$517
- 9Douglas JohnstonChicago$492
- 10Saied GhadersohiChicago$311
- 11Lauren HolingerChicago$265
- 12Taher ValikaChicago$211
- 13Manali AminNaperville$189
- 14Jeffrey RastatterChicago$159
- 15Sue KimGlenview$117
- 16Kathleen BillingsChicago$57
- 17Rebecca ComptonOak Lawn$48
- 18Leslie BlockLake Forest$37
- 19Annie FarrellChicago$32
- 20Dennis LeeBloomington$22