Surgical Oncology in Illinois
55 providers, $694,847 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,301.
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 surgical oncology clinicians in Illinois
Across 46 surgical oncology clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,466,014 in total — an average of $75,348 each, of which $74,729 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
- 1Fadi DahdalehChicago$197,730
- 2Claudius ConradUrbana$174,018
- 3Nora HansenChicago$41,054
- 4Jeffrey WayneChicago$38,204
- 5David BentremChicago$33,860
- 6Mecker MollerChicago$25,010
- 7Akhil ChawlaWarrenville$16,974
- 8Shishir MaithelChicago$16,131
- 9Ashley HardyWarrenville$15,971
- 10Aslam EjazChicago$15,944
- 11Ryan MerkowChicago$15,584
- 12Xavier KeutgenChicago$13,438
- 13Chad BarnesOrland Park$8,772
- 14John AbadWarrenville$8,672
- 15Alejandra Perez TamayoChicago$6,362
- 16Juliet LumatiChicago$6,291
- 17Swati KulkarniChicago$5,174
- 18Rosalinda AlvaradoChicago$4,993
- 19Paul RoachMaywood$4,508
- 20Thomas TarterDecatur$4,204
- 21George SaltiNaperville$3,760
- 22Charles Brownla Grange Highlands$3,327
- 23Suven ShankarCarterville$3,240
- 24Miraj Shah-KhanOrland Park$3,233
- 25Kiran TuragaChicago$2,951
- 26Chantal ReynaMaywood$2,774
- 27Sam PappasChicago$2,321
- 28Bhavin ShahJoliet$2,301
- 29Cecylia MizeraChicago$1,910
- 30Anna ChichuraSchaumburg$1,885
- 31Mark ConnollyChicago$1,732
- 32Lacey StelleRockford$1,629
- 33John HyngstromChicago$1,608
- 34Cristina OdonoghueChicago$1,399
- 35Julie WecslerChicago$1,395
- 36Claudia PerezMaywood$1,074
- 37Mark TalamontiEvanston$1,023
- 38Katherine HansenGeneva$839
- 39Helene SterblingLibertyville$838
- 40Erin StrongMaywood$608
- 41Emily SturmSpringfield$568
- 42Matthew DixonChicago$560
- 43Kirsten LungChicago$253
- 44Elizabeth PoliHighland Park$143
- 45Gabrielle YeeAurora$111
- 46Sean WrennChicago$108
- 47Thomas SmithChicago$101
- 48Stuart LipnickChicago$74
- 49Alfonso MellijorChicago$55
- 50Mitchell PosnerChicago$39
- 51Jeffrey MatthewsChicago$39
- 52Thomas WittChicago$21
- 53Denise MonahanLake Forest$19
- 54Rohit SharmaChicago$13
- 55Seema KhanChicago$0