Pediatric Surgery in Illinois
41 providers, $116,700 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $320.
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 surgery clinicians in Illinois
Across 2 pediatric surgery clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $87,995 in total — an average of $43,997 each, of which $43,898 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
- 1Thomas IngeChicago$53,978
- 2Seth GoldsteinChicago$17,811
- 3Brian GulackHoffman Estates$8,051
- 4Ami ShahChicago$5,475
- 5Thom LobeChicago$4,961
- 6Erik BarthelChicago$4,842
- 7Marko RojnicaChicago$4,581
- 8Alejandra Casar BerazaluceChicago$2,465
- 9Baddr ShakhsheerChicago$2,294
- 10Samantha KnightSpringfield$1,786
- 11Alexander DzakovicMaywood$1,669
- 12Thomas SimsChicago$1,123
- 13Aimen ShaabanMaywood$942
- 14Max MaizelsChicago$900
- 15Carmen Ramos IrizarryChicago$623
- 16Kimberly MolikSpringfield$516
- 17Carlos Sanchez GlanvilleSpringfield$433
- 18Marielena Bachier-RodriguezChicago$385
- 19Fizan AbdullahMaywood$367
- 20Anthony MunacoPeoria$320
- 21Rashmi KabreChicago$320
- 22Danielle DoughertyChicago$318
- 23Catherine HunterChicago$312
- 24Jennifer DefazioChicago$285
- 25Caroline LemoineChicago$267
- 26John TackettHoffman Estates$248
- 27Erin RowellChicago$240
- 28David GrabskiChicago$179
- 29Sandra KabagambeUrbana$167
- 30Thomas LeeChicago$123
- 31Yue-Yung HuChicago$120
- 32Charles AprahamianPeoria$114
- 33Guillermo AresMaywood$98
- 34Kathleen DominguezUrbana$79
- 35Riccardo SuperinaChicago$77
- 36John WesleyVernon Hills$65
- 37Nikola PuffinbargerChicago$62
- 38Nathaniel KooChicago$39
- 39Carmelle RomainChicago$24
- 40Mark HoltermanChicago$23
- 41William BuntainRockford$20