$154.8M in total Medicare payments across 6 years
Procedure 31298 (Dilation of sphenoid and frontal nasal sinus using an endoscope) received $154.8M in total Medicare payments.
Across 37.3K services, the average Medicare payment was $4.1K per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | $29.9M | 6.9K | — |
| 2019 | $33.0M | 7.6K | +10.3% |
| 2020 | $23.9M | 5.6K | -27.3% |
| 2021 | $22.3M | 5.2K | -7.0% |
| 2022 | $22.8M | 5.9K | +2.6% |
| 2023 | $22.9M | 6.2K | +0.4% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madison Richardson | Otolaryngology | CA | $761.1K | 170 | $4.5K |
| 2 | Brian Lee | Otolaryngology | AZ | $738.4K | 204 | $3.6K |
| 3 | James Gould | Otolaryngology | MO | $640.3K | 176 | $3.6K |
| 4 | Franklyn Gergits | Otolaryngology | AZ | $617.9K | 172 | $3.6K |
| 5 | Vincent Nalbone | Otolaryngology | NV | $567.9K | 150 | $3.8K |
| 6 | Martin Hopp | Otolaryngology | CA | $562.1K | 123 | $4.6K |
| 7 | Michael Kaplan | Otolaryngology | TX | $516.4K | 136 | $3.8K |
| 8 | Naveen Kumar | Otolaryngology | AZ | $506.2K | 142 | $3.6K |
| 9 | Bryan Smedley | Otolaryngology | OK | $503.5K | 139 | $3.6K |
| 10 | Stacey Hudson | Otolaryngology | NV | $458.7K | 120 | $3.8K |
| 11 | Edgar Lueg | Otolaryngology | CA | $401.3K | 90 | $4.5K |
| 12 | Daniel Mckenna | Otolaryngology | FL | $391.5K | 100 | $3.9K |
| 13 | James Osborne | Otolaryngology | AZ | $377.0K | 103 | $3.7K |
| 14 | Ted Shen | Otolaryngology | CA | $366.5K | 82 | $4.5K |
| 15 | Meir Hershcovitch | Otolaryngology | CA | $361.6K | 85 | $4.3K |
| 16 | James Oberman | Otolaryngology | MD | $357.5K | 99 | $3.6K |
| 17 | Matthew Blair | Otolaryngology | LA | $335.8K | 104 | $3.2K |
| 18 | Robert Weiss | Otolaryngology | CT | $307.6K | 75 | $4.1K |
| 19 | Michael Bublik | Otolaryngology | CA | $300.1K | 69 | $4.3K |
| 20 | Alen Cohen | Otolaryngology | CA | $292.2K | 66 | $4.4K |
| 21 | Ashley Sikand | Otolaryngology | NV | $288.5K | 79 | $3.7K |
| 22 | Joseph Capo | Otolaryngology | NY | $277.0K | 60 | $4.6K |
| 23 | Daniel Slaughter | Otolaryngology | TX | $267.4K | 67 | $4.0K |
| 24 | Wade Han | Otolaryngology | FL | $262.6K | 74 | $3.5K |
| 25 | Christopher Thompson | Otolaryngology | TX | $257.7K | 71 | $3.6K |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $5.2M | 1.3K | 32 | $162.4K |
| TX | $3.9M | 1.1K | 39 | $99.9K |
| AZ | $3.2M | 886 | 12 | $265.7K |
| FL | $1.8M | 498 | 19 | $96.2K |
| NV | $1.5M | 407 | 6 | $256.9K |
| MO | $762.0K | 211 | 3 | $254.0K |
| IN | $593.5K | 189 | 5 | $118.7K |
| LA | $562.7K | 188 | 4 | $140.7K |
| NY | $550.7K | 127 | 6 | $91.8K |
| OK | $550.7K | 153 | 2 | $275.3K |
| CT | $483.2K | 117 | 2 | $241.6K |
| VA | $471.4K | 132 | 3 | $157.1K |
| AL | $445.9K | 133 | 6 | $74.3K |
| OH | $361.3K | 107 | 4 | $90.3K |
| MD | $357.5K | 99 | 1 | $357.5K |
| SC | $265.2K | 84 | 2 | $132.6K |
| IL | $262.7K | 79 | 4 | $65.7K |
| PA | $259.1K | 71 | 4 | $64.8K |
| GA | $204.2K | 57 | 3 | $68.1K |
| DC | $176.0K | 39 | 1 | $176.0K |
| MI | $140.6K | 37 | 2 | $70.3K |
| NC | $113.3K | 36 | 2 | $56.7K |
| MS | $112.8K | 35 | 2 | $56.4K |
| NJ | $107.4K | 27 | 2 | $53.7K |
| TN | $100.1K | 29 | 2 | $50.0K |
| ME | $93.6K | 22 | 1 | $93.6K |
| HI | $85.1K | 20 | 1 | $85.1K |
| WI | $82.4K | 28 | 2 | $41.2K |
| WA | $52.4K | 12 | 1 | $52.4K |
| OR | $47.8K | 13 | 1 | $47.8K |
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.