Procedural Dermatology in Illinois
13 providers, $700,628 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 procedural dermatology clinicians in Illinois
Across 7 procedural dermatology clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,947,679 in total — an average of $563,954 each, of which $426,467 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
- 1Ashish BhatiaItasca$434,331
- 2Keith KozenyBuffalo Grove$178,467
- 3Scott GlazerBuffalo Grove$37,737
- 4Michael FretzinBuffalo Grove$22,130
- 5Amy BrodskyRockford$21,199
- 6David OthmanChicago$4,917
- 7Kent TaulbeeBloomington$544
- 8Valeria FugaliChicago$456
- 9Charles ZugermanChicago$420
- 10David FretzinPark Ridge$207
- 11Raymond VahlWorth$136
- 12Charles ConnorMaryville$59
- 13David WhitneyEvanstan$23