Vision Therapy in Illinois
9 providers, $93,861 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 vision therapy clinicians in Illinois
Across 5 vision therapy clinicians in Illinois who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $30,725 in total — an average of $6,145 each, of which $6,145 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
- 1Cary HerzbergAurora$88,268
- 2Stephanie JohnsonChicago$1,964
- 3Mark TakesuyeChicago$1,104
- 4Ryan EdwardsAurora$553
- 5Sarah El-KhazendarDowners Grove$543
- 6Lindsey StullNaperville$518
- 7Vasana LerdvorataveeMontgomery$400
- 8Alicia WongWestmont$289
- 9Michael DestefanoArlington Heights$221