$174.7M in total Medicare payments across 7 years
Procedure 22853 (Insertion of cage or mesh device to spine bone and disc space during spine fusion) received $174.7M in total Medicare payments.
Across 1.2M services, the average Medicare payment was $141.25 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $24.7M | 173.6K | — |
| 2018 | $25.3M | 184.4K | +2.3% |
| 2019 | $27.9M | 195.0K | +10.2% |
| 2020 | $23.9M | 165.6K | -14.3% |
| 2021 | $24.4M | 170.7K | +2.2% |
| 2022 | $24.3M | 173.4K | -0.3% |
| 2023 | $24.3M | 173.7K | -0.2% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henry Aryan | Neurosurgery | CA | $82.9K | 414 | $200.34 |
| 2 | Eric Oberlander | Neurosurgery | LA | $71.9K | 356 | $202.08 |
| 3 | Charles Park | Neurosurgery | MD | $59.1K | 262 | $225.69 |
| 4 | Charles Edwards, Ii | Orthopedic Surgery | MD | $56.5K | 248 | $227.68 |
| 5 | Michael Wang | Neurosurgery | FL | $52.4K | 200 | $261.86 |
| 6 | Paul Stanton | Orthopedic Surgery | CO | $52.0K | 259 | $200.89 |
| 7 | Richard Hynes | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $51.1K | 243 | $210.48 |
| 8 | Connor Telles | Orthopedic Surgery | CA | $51.0K | 256 | $199.19 |
| 9 | Mark Frenkel | Neurosurgery | FL | $50.4K | 216 | $233.13 |
| 10 | Peter Campbell | Neurosurgery | LA | $48.5K | 244 | $198.60 |
| 11 | Daniel Williams | Orthopedic Surgery | NC | $48.3K | 249 | $194.09 |
| 12 | Devin Datta | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $43.9K | 211 | $208.15 |
| 13 | Robert Kimber | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $42.4K | 196 | $216.35 |
| 14 | Roger Sung | Orthopedic Surgery | CO | $41.0K | 202 | $202.79 |
| 15 | Dhruv Pateder | Orthopedic Surgery | VA | $40.2K | 176 | $228.67 |
| 16 | Yogish Kamath | Neurosurgery | TX | $39.5K | 205 | $192.83 |
| 17 | Ngoc-Lam Nguyen | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $39.2K | 182 | $215.17 |
| 18 | John Dorchak | Orthopedic Surgery | GA | $38.4K | 201 | $191.20 |
| 19 | Joshua Herzog | Orthopedic Surgery | VA | $38.3K | 193 | $198.57 |
| 20 | James Eule | Orthopedic Surgery | AK | $37.8K | 150 | $252.33 |
| 21 | Michael Merrick | Orthopedic Surgery | TX | $37.3K | 194 | $192.46 |
| 22 | Khalid Kurtom | Neurosurgery | MD | $36.5K | 172 | $212.42 |
| 23 | Benjamin Ditty | Neurosurgery | FL | $34.9K | 150 | $232.35 |
| 24 | Aaron Creek | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $34.5K | 166 | $207.87 |
| 25 | Steven Kraljic | Neurosurgery | ND | $33.8K | 181 | $186.70 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $2.4M | 15.8K | 326 | $7.3K |
| TX | $2.2M | 15.6K | 341 | $6.3K |
| CA | $2.1M | 14.2K | 321 | $6.7K |
| AZ | $890.6K | 6.8K | 132 | $6.7K |
| CO | $877.5K | 6.9K | 134 | $6.5K |
| NC | $875.7K | 6.8K | 167 | $5.2K |
| GA | $837.7K | 6.1K | 145 | $5.8K |
| VA | $827.4K | 5.8K | 125 | $6.6K |
| OH | $816.5K | 5.8K | 149 | $5.5K |
| NY | $814.4K | 4.6K | 143 | $5.7K |
| IL | $800.9K | 5.1K | 133 | $6.0K |
| MD | $699.8K | 4.5K | 83 | $8.4K |
| MI | $633.7K | 3.8K | 107 | $5.9K |
| PA | $631.6K | 3.9K | 104 | $6.1K |
| LA | $605.3K | 5.0K | 82 | $7.4K |
| TN | $564.1K | 4.3K | 109 | $5.2K |
| SC | $548.0K | 4.4K | 94 | $5.8K |
| IN | $526.0K | 4.4K | 121 | $4.3K |
| MA | $515.9K | 3.0K | 77 | $6.7K |
| MO | $512.7K | 3.9K | 96 | $5.3K |
| WA | $488.3K | 3.9K | 102 | $4.8K |
| OK | $473.0K | 3.8K | 72 | $6.6K |
| AL | $418.6K | 3.7K | 91 | $4.6K |
| MN | $335.9K | 2.7K | 73 | $4.6K |
| KY | $309.2K | 2.0K | 64 | $4.8K |
| NJ | $295.0K | 2.1K | 62 | $4.8K |
| UT | $275.8K | 2.1K | 56 | $4.9K |
| OR | $267.0K | 2.0K | 49 | $5.4K |
| KS | $263.7K | 2.1K | 46 | $5.7K |
| NV | $208.3K | 1.6K | 46 | $4.5K |
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.