Surgery of the Hand in Illinois
18 providers, $111,300 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 surgery of the hand clinicians in Illinois
Across 13 surgery of the hand clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,582,869 in total — an average of $121,759 each, of which $117,050 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
- 1Jason KoChicago$57,578
- 2Christopher PelletiereInverness$28,063
- 3Nicholas RauhElmhurst$4,237
- 4Daniel LygrissePeoria$4,088
- 5Robert WaltonChicago$2,983
- 6Patrick StewartEffingham$2,644
- 7Tiffany KadowWarrenville$2,523
- 8Mansour MakhloufDes Plaines$2,067
- 9Michael NeumeisterSpringfield$1,919
- 10Patricia BaltazarNew Lenox$1,228
- 11Nash NaamEffingham$929
- 12Gary KronenPalos Hills$792
- 13Nada BerrySpringfield$674
- 14Mark ShimaChampaign$595
- 15John BulgerHinsdale$535
- 16Vincent PelletiereInverness$207
- 17Nicholas SpezialeElmhurst$191
- 18Jerome WeiskopfRockford$46