But the Medicare data dump indicated that Dr. Gadalean was making $2 million from actually seeing patients. Curious, I took a cab out to see his office. His $2 million kidney practice was in a small, half-empty one-story yellow stucco building at the back of a parking lot near a highway crossover. Inside was an empty waiting room with linoleum floors and brown plastic chairs. The only person present was a receptionist in scrubs behind a sign offering flu shots.
