$241.7M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 22842 (Placement of stabilizing device to back, 3-6 spine bone segments) received $241.7M in total Medicare payments.
Across 551.6K services, the average Medicare payment was $438.12 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $21.2M | 49.0K | — |
| 2015 | $22.4M | 51.2K | +5.7% |
| 2016 | $24.9M | 56.7K | +10.9% |
| 2017 | $25.1M | 57.7K | +0.9% |
| 2018 | $26.1M | 59.4K | +4.0% |
| 2019 | $27.5M | 62.0K | +5.4% |
| 2020 | $23.2M | 51.6K | -15.9% |
| 2021 | $24.3M | 55.3K | +4.8% |
| 2022 | $23.5M | 54.1K | -3.1% |
| 2023 | $23.5M | 54.6K | +0.0% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Wang | Neurosurgery | FL | $70.1K | 90 | $779.37 |
| 2 | Charles Edwards, Ii | Orthopedic Surgery | MD | $57.9K | 86 | $673.72 |
| 3 | Steven Ludwig | Orthopedic Surgery | MD | $50.5K | 77 | $656.02 |
| 4 | Mark Eskander | Orthopedic Surgery | DE | $47.5K | 79 | $601.11 |
| 5 | Arnold Vardiman | Neurosurgery | TX | $45.4K | 81 | $561.07 |
| 6 | John Stevenson | Neurosurgery | FL | $44.2K | 70 | $631.21 |
| 7 | Paul Stanton | Orthopedic Surgery | CO | $44.1K | 73 | $604.66 |
| 8 | Ngoc-Lam Nguyen | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $43.1K | 68 | $633.56 |
| 9 | Connor Telles | Orthopedic Surgery | CA | $42.5K | 72 | $589.89 |
| 10 | Eric Oberlander | Neurosurgery | LA | $41.6K | 69 | $602.33 |
| 11 | Michael Merrick | Orthopedic Surgery | TX | $41.1K | 72 | $570.33 |
| 12 | Fred Mo | Orthopedic Surgery | DC | $40.3K | 59 | $683.46 |
| 13 | Paul Marcotte | Neurosurgery | PA | $40.2K | 63 | $638.46 |
| 14 | Daniel Williams | Orthopedic Surgery | NC | $39.9K | 71 | $561.81 |
| 15 | Gregory Balturshot | Neurosurgery | OH | $39.6K | 65 | $608.96 |
| 16 | Andrew Manista | Orthopedic Surgery | WA | $37.5K | 64 | $585.59 |
| 17 | Jeffrey Rihn | Orthopedic Surgery | PA | $37.4K | 59 | $633.83 |
| 18 | Milan Herceg | Orthopedic Surgery | OH | $37.4K | 64 | $584.15 |
| 19 | Charles Park | Neurosurgery | MD | $37.3K | 56 | $665.82 |
| 20 | Matthew Henry | Neurosurgery | KS | $35.9K | 68 | $528.35 |
| 21 | Lance Smith | Orthopedic Surgery | OK | $35.7K | 62 | $576.58 |
| 22 | Gregory Oetting | Neurosurgery | GA | $35.6K | 64 | $556.21 |
| 23 | Srinivas Prasad | Neurosurgery | PA | $35.6K | 55 | $646.50 |
| 24 | Matthew Colman | Orthopedic Surgery | IL | $35.5K | 56 | $634.62 |
| 25 | Henry Aryan | Neurosurgery | CA | $35.3K | 60 | $588.80 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $2.0M | 4.5K | 223 | $9.0K |
| FL | $1.9M | 4.2K | 194 | $9.7K |
| TX | $1.5M | 3.7K | 187 | $8.3K |
| OH | $1.1M | 2.6K | 119 | $9.5K |
| PA | $1.1M | 2.2K | 104 | $10.6K |
| MD | $1.0M | 2.1K | 80 | $13.1K |
| IL | $887.9K | 1.8K | 95 | $9.3K |
| VA | $855.1K | 2.0K | 93 | $9.2K |
| CO | $801.0K | 2.0K | 88 | $9.1K |
| NC | $791.2K | 2.0K | 104 | $7.6K |
| MI | $788.6K | 1.6K | 89 | $8.9K |
| NY | $773.7K | 1.4K | 84 | $9.2K |
| MA | $765.9K | 1.5K | 77 | $9.9K |
| AZ | $764.6K | 1.8K | 84 | $9.1K |
| TN | $587.9K | 1.5K | 71 | $8.3K |
| GA | $566.6K | 1.3K | 65 | $8.7K |
| IN | $524.5K | 1.4K | 74 | $7.1K |
| OK | $491.4K | 1.3K | 60 | $8.2K |
| WA | $466.8K | 1.2K | 63 | $7.4K |
| KS | $438.1K | 1.2K | 42 | $10.4K |
| SC | $418.6K | 1.0K | 50 | $8.4K |
| LA | $416.4K | 1.1K | 51 | $8.2K |
| MO | $415.0K | 1.0K | 59 | $7.0K |
| NJ | $333.5K | 750 | 48 | $6.9K |
| MN | $309.0K | 797 | 42 | $7.4K |
| AL | $307.7K | 884 | 47 | $6.5K |
| KY | $282.7K | 631 | 33 | $8.6K |
| IA | $244.3K | 685 | 28 | $8.7K |
| UT | $227.7K | 550 | 30 | $7.6K |
| NE | $216.4K | 665 | 33 | $6.6K |
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.