Sports Medicine in Illinois
233 providers, $33,224,902 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $888.
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 sports medicine clinicians in Illinois
Across 196 sports medicine clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $29,020,579 in total — an average of $148,064 each, of which $122,864 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
- 1Benjamin DombDes Plaines$16,332,845
- 2Gregory NicholsonChicago$6,715,019
- 3Grant GarriguesChicago$2,461,139
- 4Brian ColeChicago$2,062,389
- 5Brian ForsytheChicago$1,899,343
- 6Nikhil VermaChicago$646,781
- 7Shane NhoChicago$520,742
- 8Jourdan CancienneJoliet$224,266
- 9Vehniah TjongChicago$172,935
- 10Aravind AthivirahamChicago$137,763
- 11Adam YankeChicago$132,353
- 12Ronak PatelHinsdale$129,470
- 13Trevor BullockLincolnshire$120,538
- 14Craig CumminsBarrington$96,547
- 15Nirav ShahPalos Heights$78,538
- 16Tomas NemickasGurnee$73,848
- 17Mary MulcaheyMaywood$71,869
- 18Woodley DesirSpringfield$67,168
- 19David ZhuGlen Carbon$66,990
- 20Nicholas TrasoliniChicago$66,658
- 21Adam MeiselPalos Hills$59,472
- 22Vishal MehtaGeneva$59,031
- 23Benjamin KesterLombard$56,083
- 24Simon LeeWarrenville$52,083
- 25Nicholas LemmeChicago$48,877
- 26Jose VegaChicago$48,021
- 27Patrick BirminghamChicago$42,188
- 28Xuyang SongRiver Forest$35,800
- 29Varun SharmaSpringfield$34,057
- 30Steven LevinSkokie$32,449
- 31Adam KahnChicago$30,698
- 32Jacob StelterOrland Park$29,319
- 33Nicholas RamosChicago$27,372
- 34Jason KohSkokie$24,993
- 35Richard NicolayGlenview$23,899
- 36Zahab AhsanNaperville$23,828
- 37Gregory PrimusTinley Park$21,027
- 38Jason HurbanekJoliet$19,879
- 39Henry FuentesPalos Heights$18,033
- 40Ron GilatChicago$16,123
- 41Kristina JohnsonEvergreen Park$16,094
- 42Bernard BachChicago$14,971
- 43Adam GoldmanBartlett$13,391
- 44Harpreet BasranMcHenry$12,952
- 45Kenneth TuanDecatur$12,725
- 46Michael ChiuArlington Heights$12,235
- 47Charles Bush JosephChicago$11,768
- 48Michael WardHoffman Estates$11,645
- 49Kristen BartonChicago$11,575
- 50Amrit VinodChicago$11,488
- 51Kyle KunzeChicago$11,416
- 52Steven MilosRockford$11,395
- 53Daniel KuesisElk Grove Village$10,980
- 54David GuelichChicago$10,467
- 55Deepak PatelYorkville$10,435
- 56Jakob AckermannChicago$10,414
- 57Justin GentMcHenry$9,827
- 58Mark BowenChicago$9,435
- 59Savan PatelCrystal Lake$9,313
- 60Ahmed RadwanO Fallon$9,256