Dr. Nitesh R Thakker, MD

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Saint Joseph Medical Center Hospital · Joliet, IL · listed as Saint Joseph Medical Center - Joliet LLC
• Silver Cross Hospital And Medical Centers Hospital · New Lenox, IL

Colleagues at Dupage Medical Group Ltd

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1328 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Teresa Kimberly Austin, DPT Physical Therapist · Bloomingdale, IL
• Kyle Jeffrey Bulseco, PT, DPT Physical Therapist · Glen Ellyn, IL
• Magdalena A Czerniak, PT Physical Therapist · Lemont, IL
• Dr. F. Wilford Germino, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Orland Park, IL
• Ismael Gutierrez, MD Family Medicine Physician · Tinley Park, IL
• Meena Harper, OTD, OTR/L Occupational Therapist · Glen Ellyn, IL
• Annaluisa Krug, DPT Physical Therapist · Oak Lawn, IL
• Bency Kurian, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Downers Grove, IL
• Ashley Barenfanger Moja Internal Medicine Physician · Lisle, IL
• Timothy J. Russell, DO Emergency Medicine Physician · Tinley Park, IL
• Dr. Caitlin Storino, DO Family Medicine Physician · Oak Lawn, IL
• Meghan Looby Waintraub, PA Physician Assistant · Glen Ellyn, IL

Other providers in Joliet

• Valbona Behaj, MD

  Individual Hospitalist Physician · NPI 1407011588

  333 Madison St, Joliet, IL 60435-8200 · (815) 725-7133

• Dr. Sarfaraz Haque, MD

  Individual Hospitalist Physician · NPI 1396939914

  2100 Glenwood Ave, Joliet, IL 60435-5487 · (815) 425-2121

• Dr. Margaret H Zabiega, MD

  Individual Hospitalist Physician · NPI 1578564654

  2100 Glenwood Ave, Joliet, IL 60435 · (815) 725-2121