$473.9M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 31575 (Diagnostic exam of voice box using a flexible endoscope) received $473.9M in total Medicare payments.
Across 5.6M services, the average Medicare payment was $83.93 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $49.0M | 597.6K | — |
| 2015 | $49.9M | 601.9K | +1.8% |
| 2016 | $50.1M | 614.4K | +0.3% |
| 2017 | $47.9M | 607.7K | -4.3% |
| 2018 | $48.1M | 613.5K | +0.3% |
| 2019 | $51.4M | 626.0K | +6.8% |
| 2020 | $38.7M | 450.1K | -24.7% |
| 2021 | $47.2M | 516.4K | +21.9% |
| 2022 | $45.9M | 506.9K | -2.7% |
| 2023 | $45.8M | 511.6K | -0.0% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raffi-Jean Mesrobian | Otolaryngology | CA | $110.2K | 974 | $113.14 |
| 2 | Thomas Lipin | Otolaryngology | FL | $104.3K | 1.1K | $99.20 |
| 3 | Mukesh Prasad | Otolaryngology | NY | $87.4K | 737 | $118.52 |
| 4 | Stuart Sabol | Otolaryngology | FL | $85.6K | 856 | $100.05 |
| 5 | Michael Jungkeit | Otolaryngology | WA | $82.5K | 853 | $96.68 |
| 6 | Stefan Kieserman | Otolaryngology | NY | $79.2K | 657 | $120.54 |
| 7 | Steven Lee | Otolaryngology | CA | $78.2K | 721 | $108.49 |
| 8 | Dev Kamdar | Otolaryngology | MI | $67.8K | 565 | $120.08 |
| 9 | Leela Lavasani | Otolaryngology | FL | $62.9K | 616 | $102.17 |
| 10 | Roberto Castellon | Otolaryngology | OH | $62.4K | 707 | $88.29 |
| 11 | Gennady Ukrainsky | Otolaryngology | NY | $59.7K | 514 | $116.11 |
| 12 | Daniel Branovan | Otolaryngology | NY | $58.5K | 506 | $115.65 |
| 13 | Luis Marmol | Otolaryngology | FL | $56.2K | 578 | $97.18 |
| 14 | Christopher Walz | Otolaryngology | CA | $55.5K | 767 | $72.31 |
| 15 | Anthony Tucker | Otolaryngology | FL | $53.9K | 553 | $97.51 |
| 16 | Larry Feiner | Otolaryngology | PA | $51.2K | 494 | $103.57 |
| 17 | Michael Aronsohn | Otolaryngology | FL | $51.1K | 497 | $102.79 |
| 18 | Ralph Bassett | Otolaryngology | AZ | $49.0K | 508 | $96.45 |
| 19 | Salvatore Caruana | Otolaryngology | NY | $48.2K | 408 | $118.08 |
| 20 | Saul Modlin | Otolaryngology | NY | $48.1K | 485 | $99.23 |
| 21 | Scott Gold | Otolaryngology | NY | $47.0K | 396 | $118.81 |
| 22 | George Georgakakis | Otolaryngology | FL | $46.9K | 468 | $100.31 |
| 23 | Curtis Emmer | Otolaryngology | FL | $46.5K | 466 | $99.82 |
| 24 | Steven Bello | Otolaryngology | FL | $46.0K | 468 | $98.27 |
| 25 | Todd Lindquist | Otolaryngology | FL | $45.2K | 454 | $99.49 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NY | $5.1M | 48.3K | 578 | $8.7K |
| FL | $4.8M | 52.6K | 565 | $8.6K |
| CA | $4.5M | 45.1K | 612 | $7.3K |
| TX | $2.5M | 28.4K | 548 | $4.6K |
| PA | $2.5M | 28.9K | 377 | $6.6K |
| NJ | $2.1M | 19.9K | 238 | $9.0K |
| MA | $1.8M | 20.0K | 241 | $7.4K |
| IL | $1.7M | 19.1K | 284 | $5.9K |
| GA | $1.3M | 15.8K | 275 | $4.9K |
| MD | $1.3M | 12.9K | 154 | $8.4K |
| VA | $1.3M | 14.6K | 210 | $6.1K |
| NC | $1.3M | 15.1K | 256 | $5.0K |
| OH | $1.1M | 14.9K | 270 | $4.2K |
| MI | $1.1M | 13.0K | 237 | $4.5K |
| SC | $1.0M | 12.0K | 161 | $6.3K |
| TN | $863.2K | 10.9K | 180 | $4.8K |
| WA | $816.3K | 9.1K | 176 | $4.6K |
| AZ | $801.9K | 9.1K | 122 | $6.6K |
| CO | $724.1K | 7.8K | 144 | $5.0K |
| MO | $675.3K | 8.4K | 160 | $4.2K |
| IN | $634.7K | 7.6K | 152 | $4.2K |
| CT | $630.8K | 6.2K | 105 | $6.0K |
| AL | $589.3K | 7.3K | 124 | $4.8K |
| LA | $550.8K | 7.1K | 151 | $3.6K |
| MN | $501.8K | 6.1K | 149 | $3.4K |
| KY | $496.9K | 6.1K | 109 | $4.6K |
| IA | $436.2K | 5.8K | 93 | $4.7K |
| OR | $408.5K | 4.7K | 106 | $3.9K |
| MS | $398.1K | 5.0K | 57 | $7.0K |
| WI | $387.8K | 5.4K | 132 | $2.9K |
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.