$386.0M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 22633 (Fusion of spine in lower back with partial removal of spine bone and disc) received $386.0M in total Medicare payments.
Across 391.0K services, the average Medicare payment was $987.26 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $35.3M | 36.8K | — |
| 2015 | $36.9M | 37.4K | +4.3% |
| 2016 | $40.0M | 40.8K | +8.6% |
| 2017 | $41.1M | 41.8K | +2.7% |
| 2018 | $42.7M | 43.3K | +3.9% |
| 2019 | $43.9M | 43.8K | +2.6% |
| 2020 | $36.1M | 35.7K | -17.6% |
| 2021 | $37.4M | 37.0K | +3.4% |
| 2022 | $37.4M | 37.8K | +0.0% |
| 2023 | $35.2M | 36.5K | -5.9% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles Edwards, Ii | Orthopedic Surgery | MD | $203.6K | 127 | $1.6K |
| 2 | Henry Aryan | Neurosurgery | CA | $164.5K | 118 | $1.4K |
| 3 | Derek Duke | Neurosurgery | NV | $146.0K | 101 | $1.4K |
| 4 | Gregory Bailey | Orthopedic Surgery | PA | $121.8K | 85 | $1.4K |
| 5 | Justin Field | Orthopedic Surgery | AZ | $120.0K | 87 | $1.4K |
| 6 | Connor Telles | Orthopedic Surgery | CA | $119.1K | 83 | $1.4K |
| 7 | Arnold Vardiman | Neurosurgery | TX | $114.9K | 86 | $1.3K |
| 8 | Michael Wang | Neurosurgery | FL | $114.3K | 63 | $1.8K |
| 9 | Jeffrey Rihn | Orthopedic Surgery | PA | $114.2K | 75 | $1.5K |
| 10 | Ngoc-Lam Nguyen | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $111.9K | 75 | $1.5K |
| 11 | Khalid Kurtom | Neurosurgery | MD | $108.4K | 73 | $1.5K |
| 12 | Yogish Kamath | Neurosurgery | TX | $106.4K | 78 | $1.4K |
| 13 | Eric Oberlander | Neurosurgery | LA | $104.2K | 69 | $1.5K |
| 14 | Steven Kraljic | Neurosurgery | ND | $99.8K | 74 | $1.3K |
| 15 | Matthew Colman | Orthopedic Surgery | IL | $95.2K | 60 | $1.6K |
| 16 | Paul Marcotte | Neurosurgery | PA | $94.3K | 62 | $1.5K |
| 17 | James Paraiso | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $91.6K | 60 | $1.5K |
| 18 | Joel Winer | Neurosurgery | PA | $90.9K | 65 | $1.4K |
| 19 | Bryan Barnes | Neurosurgery | GA | $90.6K | 70 | $1.3K |
| 20 | Andrew Manista | Orthopedic Surgery | WA | $89.8K | 65 | $1.4K |
| 21 | Brett Reichwage | Neurosurgery | FL | $87.3K | 57 | $1.5K |
| 22 | Matthew Vanlandingham | Neurosurgery | MS | $87.1K | 68 | $1.3K |
| 23 | Todd Raabe | Orthopedic Surgery | TX | $86.3K | 64 | $1.3K |
| 24 | Dawei Lu | Orthopedic Surgery | WA | $85.9K | 62 | $1.4K |
| 25 | Robert Kimber | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $84.1K | 60 | $1.4K |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $3.0M | 3.0K | 124 | $24.4K |
| TX | $2.4M | 2.5K | 110 | $21.6K |
| CA | $2.3M | 2.2K | 100 | $23.3K |
| IL | $1.7M | 1.6K | 78 | $21.6K |
| CO | $1.6M | 1.7K | 72 | $21.7K |
| AZ | $1.5M | 1.6K | 60 | $24.3K |
| PA | $1.4M | 1.3K | 52 | $27.7K |
| VA | $1.2M | 1.2K | 52 | $23.5K |
| MD | $1.2M | 1.1K | 46 | $26.5K |
| NY | $1.2M | 983 | 58 | $20.7K |
| OH | $1.2M | 1.2K | 56 | $21.2K |
| IN | $1.1M | 1.4K | 66 | $16.8K |
| MA | $1.1M | 905 | 41 | $26.9K |
| MI | $1.0M | 1.0K | 53 | $19.4K |
| NC | $1.0M | 1.1K | 62 | $16.2K |
| WA | $900.5K | 1.0K | 46 | $19.6K |
| GA | $823.0K | 921 | 42 | $19.6K |
| SC | $771.7K | 852 | 43 | $17.9K |
| MO | $730.7K | 824 | 48 | $15.2K |
| OK | $710.4K | 826 | 37 | $19.2K |
| MN | $684.1K | 722 | 38 | $18.0K |
| TN | $673.9K | 760 | 38 | $17.7K |
| LA | $568.5K | 657 | 29 | $19.6K |
| NE | $503.0K | 621 | 26 | $19.3K |
| KS | $480.9K | 547 | 18 | $26.7K |
| UT | $421.7K | 441 | 23 | $18.3K |
| MS | $420.0K | 500 | 14 | $30.0K |
| AR | $416.1K | 464 | 22 | $18.9K |
| NJ | $407.4K | 402 | 21 | $19.4K |
| NV | $368.2K | 406 | 16 | $23.0K |
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.