$298.1M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 27096 (Injection of anesthetic or steroid into joint between lower spine and hip bone using imaging guidance) received $298.1M in total Medicare payments.
Across 2.7M services, the average Medicare payment was $110.11 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $26.7M | 243.7K | — |
| 2015 | $28.1M | 260.9K | +5.4% |
| 2016 | $29.5M | 277.3K | +4.8% |
| 2017 | $30.1M | 287.8K | +2.2% |
| 2018 | $31.4M | 293.7K | +4.2% |
| 2019 | $32.8M | 299.0K | +4.3% |
| 2020 | $27.1M | 240.7K | -17.2% |
| 2021 | $31.1M | 267.5K | +14.6% |
| 2022 | $31.1M | 271.6K | -0.1% |
| 2023 | $30.1M | 264.7K | -3.0% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Weaver | Anesthesiology | VA | $105.8K | 582 | $181.70 |
| 2 | Tennyson Lee | Pain Management | IL | $91.0K | 527 | $172.67 |
| 3 | Lee James | Interventional Pain Management | FL | $81.5K | 549 | $148.48 |
| 4 | Dharam Mann | Interventional Pain Management | NJ | $72.1K | 465 | $155.07 |
| 5 | Charles Whitten | Pain Management | NE | $70.4K | 439 | $160.29 |
| 6 | Chin Kim | Internal Medicine | CA | $65.9K | 377 | $174.93 |
| 7 | Jacqueline Weisbein | Pain Management | CA | $65.6K | 315 | $208.13 |
| 8 | Erik Voogd | Pain Management | MI | $62.6K | 371 | $168.86 |
| 9 | David Greschler | Pain Management | FL | $60.3K | 390 | $154.73 |
| 10 | Albert Singh | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | IL | $58.6K | 378 | $154.93 |
| 11 | Daryoush Sabet-Payman | Anesthesiology | FL | $56.3K | 360 | $156.49 |
| 12 | Rasheed Siddiqui | Interventional Pain Management | VA | $56.1K | 372 | $150.82 |
| 13 | Clifford Baker | Interventional Pain Management | AZ | $54.5K | 354 | $154.04 |
| 14 | Russell Gilchrist | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | NC | $53.5K | 334 | $160.08 |
| 15 | Douglas Spurgeon | Anesthesiology | NE | $51.6K | 321 | $160.89 |
| 16 | Bryan Fox | Orthopedic Surgery | VA | $51.6K | 334 | $154.51 |
| 17 | Daniel Kendall | Interventional Pain Management | VA | $51.5K | 247 | $208.52 |
| 18 | Jason Rosenberg | Pain Management | SC | $49.5K | 376 | $131.66 |
| 19 | Daniel Schaffer | Pain Management | FL | $48.5K | 273 | $177.54 |
| 20 | Cesar Agtarap | Internal Medicine | KY | $45.6K | 307 | $148.55 |
| 21 | Willie Yu | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | MD | $45.4K | 262 | $173.17 |
| 22 | John Paul Malayil | Pain Management | AZ | $44.1K | 283 | $155.74 |
| 23 | Teresa Kerge | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | VA | $43.8K | 274 | $160.01 |
| 24 | Andres Melendez-Dedos | Pain Management | FL | $43.2K | 301 | $143.61 |
| 25 | Eliot Wickliff | Pain Management | WI | $41.9K | 282 | $148.53 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $3.9M | 29.5K | 537 | $7.2K |
| CA | $2.1M | 18.5K | 371 | $5.7K |
| TX | $1.9M | 17.0K | 407 | $4.6K |
| NC | $1.5M | 11.7K | 202 | $7.2K |
| VA | $1.3M | 8.9K | 129 | $9.9K |
| NY | $1.3M | 9.4K | 229 | $5.6K |
| IL | $1.2M | 10.1K | 185 | $6.7K |
| AZ | $1.2M | 9.5K | 171 | $6.9K |
| PA | $1.1M | 10.7K | 246 | $4.4K |
| MI | $1.1M | 8.3K | 176 | $6.1K |
| OH | $976.6K | 10.3K | 211 | $4.6K |
| SC | $937.6K | 7.4K | 116 | $8.1K |
| GA | $827.4K | 9.1K | 182 | $4.5K |
| NJ | $718.0K | 5.3K | 133 | $5.4K |
| KY | $678.1K | 6.0K | 91 | $7.5K |
| MA | $665.5K | 6.1K | 145 | $4.6K |
| MO | $614.2K | 6.6K | 121 | $5.1K |
| IN | $580.8K | 5.9K | 139 | $4.2K |
| AL | $483.6K | 4.8K | 81 | $6.0K |
| TN | $467.7K | 4.4K | 99 | $4.7K |
| MD | $461.3K | 4.4K | 112 | $4.1K |
| UT | $454.8K | 3.5K | 72 | $6.3K |
| OK | $442.1K | 4.0K | 75 | $5.9K |
| CO | $428.2K | 4.0K | 95 | $4.5K |
| WA | $423.6K | 3.9K | 97 | $4.4K |
| WI | $411.0K | 4.5K | 122 | $3.4K |
| MN | $349.0K | 3.7K | 108 | $3.2K |
| AR | $315.0K | 3.1K | 61 | $5.2K |
| NE | $307.4K | 2.4K | 43 | $7.1K |
| IA | $296.1K | 2.8K | 51 | $5.8K |
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.