$238.8M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 20550 (Injection into tendon or ligament) received $238.8M in total Medicare payments.
Across 6.4M services, the average Medicare payment was $37.46 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $24.8M | 628.6K | — |
| 2015 | $25.8M | 644.4K | +4.0% |
| 2016 | $26.0M | 665.7K | +0.9% |
| 2017 | $22.8M | 660.2K | -12.3% |
| 2018 | $23.2M | 663.7K | +1.8% |
| 2019 | $24.0M | 670.9K | +3.2% |
| 2020 | $21.1M | 577.9K | -12.0% |
| 2021 | $24.1M | 631.7K | +14.2% |
| 2022 | $23.3M | 610.4K | -3.0% |
| 2023 | $23.8M | 621.8K | +2.1% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rufat Agayev | Podiatry | NY | $290.3K | 5.2K | $55.49 |
| 2 | Jaewoo Pak | Internal Medicine | CA | $155.3K | 3.9K | $40.03 |
| 3 | Craig Campbell | Podiatry | NY | $108.0K | 2.0K | $54.29 |
| 4 | Jimmy Seese | Podiatry | NJ | $107.8K | 2.1K | $50.65 |
| 5 | Isabella Lai | Internal Medicine | CA | $105.6K | 3.8K | $27.70 |
| 6 | Brett Hutton | Rheumatology | FL | $101.0K | 3.3K | $30.80 |
| 7 | Narinder Gupta | Anesthesiology | LA | $83.1K | 3.7K | $22.20 |
| 8 | Marc Hirsh | Rheumatology | FL | $65.0K | 1.7K | $39.27 |
| 9 | Edward Hui | Internal Medicine | CA | $52.8K | 1.1K | $48.76 |
| 10 | Charles Birbara | Rheumatology | MA | $48.6K | 1.7K | $28.75 |
| 11 | Brandon Luskin | Hand Surgery | FL | $47.6K | 1.2K | $38.23 |
| 12 | Jiyong Jeon | Podiatry | NY | $47.1K | 924 | $50.96 |
| 13 | Cynthia Harding | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $43.7K | 1.3K | $32.67 |
| 14 | Ashraf Hanna | Pain Management | FL | $39.3K | 868 | $45.27 |
| 15 | David Kim | Pain Management | NJ | $38.1K | 1.3K | $29.68 |
| 16 | Parker Gennett | Podiatry | NY | $37.5K | 783 | $47.85 |
| 17 | Simon Becker | Podiatry | NJ | $36.3K | 1.1K | $33.38 |
| 18 | George White | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $35.7K | 1.3K | $28.43 |
| 19 | Salvatore Zummo | Physician Assistant | AZ | $33.9K | 1.2K | $28.31 |
| 20 | Katie Hu | Family Practice | CA | $33.6K | 699 | $48.01 |
| 21 | Peter Stein | Hand Surgery | NY | $33.3K | 707 | $47.10 |
| 22 | Lawrence Taw | Internal Medicine | CA | $33.1K | 661 | $50.02 |
| 23 | Kristina Mitchell | Nurse Practitioner | MO | $32.4K | 1.6K | $20.40 |
| 24 | Javier Chiriboga | Nurse Practitioner | FL | $32.2K | 1.0K | $32.00 |
| 25 | Edward Bieber | Hand Surgery | MD | $32.1K | 662 | $48.43 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $3.0M | 78.8K | 970 | $3.1K |
| CA | $2.7M | 65.4K | 793 | $3.3K |
| NY | $2.1M | 44.9K | 592 | $3.6K |
| NJ | $1.5M | 31.8K | 419 | $3.5K |
| TX | $1.3M | 35.0K | 681 | $1.9K |
| PA | $1.2M | 30.0K | 559 | $2.1K |
| VA | $775.7K | 20.5K | 352 | $2.2K |
| IL | $774.7K | 19.8K | 351 | $2.2K |
| AZ | $723.3K | 22.1K | 268 | $2.7K |
| NC | $690.0K | 19.6K | 365 | $1.9K |
| MD | $675.1K | 16.4K | 262 | $2.6K |
| MA | $665.5K | 17.3K | 270 | $2.5K |
| GA | $644.8K | 17.7K | 335 | $1.9K |
| OH | $593.9K | 17.4K | 367 | $1.6K |
| SC | $498.3K | 13.6K | 227 | $2.2K |
| MI | $443.2K | 11.9K | 246 | $1.8K |
| TN | $409.9K | 11.9K | 254 | $1.6K |
| MO | $403.8K | 12.3K | 196 | $2.1K |
| WA | $393.4K | 10.4K | 202 | $1.9K |
| LA | $351.6K | 11.0K | 156 | $2.3K |
| IN | $325.6K | 9.4K | 208 | $1.6K |
| CT | $281.0K | 6.7K | 123 | $2.3K |
| CO | $257.2K | 6.6K | 153 | $1.7K |
| AL | $245.4K | 7.0K | 136 | $1.8K |
| KY | $196.3K | 5.5K | 126 | $1.6K |
| MS | $192.8K | 5.6K | 115 | $1.7K |
| NV | $183.5K | 4.8K | 76 | $2.4K |
| MN | $176.3K | 5.4K | 131 | $1.3K |
| WI | $175.9K | 5.4K | 146 | $1.2K |
| OK | $174.8K | 4.8K | 106 | $1.6K |
Last Updated: February 2026 (data through 2023, the latest CMS release)
Note: All data is from publicly available Medicare records. OpenMedicare is an independent journalism project not affiliated with CMS.