NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist Physician in Illinois

20 NPPES records list cornea and external diseases specialist physician with a practice address in Illinois, 0.2 per 100,000 residents, the 8th highest rate of 44. Chicago and Maywood have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Illinois license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 207WX0120X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Chicago has the most, 9

  1. Chicago9
  2. Maywood4
  3. Wheaton3
  4. Carol Stream1
  5. Highland Park1

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist Physician records in Illinois

  1. Farshad Abedi, MD, DMEDSCChicago, IL 606121992543722
  2. Andrea Arteaga, MDChicago, IL 606571154826584
  3. Charles Bouchard, MDMaywood, IL 601531902872393
  4. Aaron Dotson, MDMaywood, IL 601531992368344
  5. Rachel Epstein, M.D.Highland Park, IL 600351164863353
  6. Emily Jacobs, MDStickney, IL 604021669715959
  7. Kai Kang, M.D.Wheaton, IL 601871871835603
  8. Carter Kirk, M.D.River Forest, IL 603051083979181
  9. Janet Lee, MDWheaton, IL 601871407062953
  10. Christina Mamalis, MDMaywood, IL 601531063876530
  11. Anna Park, MDWheaton, IL 601871295724144
  12. Jennifer ParkChicago, IL 606121568880318
  13. Raiza Perez, MDChicago, IL 606121790536886
  14. Arnaldo Roizenblatt, MDChicago, IL 606121609799790
  15. Hajirah Saeed, M.D.Chicago, IL 606121902197122
  16. Nahrain Schumaier, MDChicago, IL 606111871175828
  17. Taylor Starnes, M.D., PH.D.Maywood, IL 601531538546841
  18. Harold Sy, MDChicago, IL 606301992730030
  19. Avrey Thau, MDChicago, IL 606411164981916
  20. Roshni Vasaiwala, M.D.Carol Stream, IL 601221437323896

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207WX0120X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Illinois ranks 8 of 44 per resident

  1. Hawaii0.2
  2. Idaho0.2
  3. Connecticut0.2
  4. Illinois0.2
  5. Iowa0.2
  6. Louisiana0.2
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.1

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207WX0120X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

95.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 95.6% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. Illinois95.0%
  2. United States95.6%

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist Physician records in Illinois, measured

  • In a Medicare file19 of 20 · 95.0% here, 95.6% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file16 · 80.0% here, 85.3% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more7 · 35.0% here, 28.9% nationally
  • Median graduation year2013 · the 16 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 207WX0120X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

20 NPPES records list cornea and external diseases specialist physician (207WX0120X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Illinois: 0.2 per 100,000 residents against 0.1 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Chicago has 9 of them (45%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Florida19
  2. Colorado17
  3. Pennsylvania17
  4. Missouri15

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. New York0.1
  2. Massachusetts0.1
  3. California0.1
  4. Texas0.1

The largest states

  1. California54
  2. Texas33
  3. New York29
  4. Florida19
  5. Colorado17

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.