$293.8M in total Medicare payments across 6 years
Procedure 36465 (Injection of chemical agent into single incompetent vein of leg using ultrasound guidance) received $293.8M in total Medicare payments.
Across 253.0K services, the average Medicare payment was $1.2K per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | $12.4M | 9.9K | — |
| 2019 | $31.9M | 25.5K | +157.4% |
| 2020 | $38.4M | 30.6K | +20.4% |
| 2021 | $62.7M | 49.9K | +63.1% |
| 2022 | $67.9M | 60.7K | +8.4% |
| 2023 | $80.5M | 76.4K | +18.5% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenneth Goldman | General Surgery | NJ | $1.0M | 824 | $1.2K |
| 2 | Salvador Borromeo | Cardiology | NV | $934.1K | 892 | $1.0K |
| 3 | Rami Sartawi | Interventional Radiology | NY | $822.2K | 648 | $1.3K |
| 4 | Sam Ebrahimi | Vascular Surgery | CA | $745.1K | 598 | $1.2K |
| 5 | Vinod Kumar | Cardiology | CA | $652.2K | 571 | $1.1K |
| 6 | Nazar Golewale | Diagnostic Radiology | IN | $638.3K | 676 | $944.22 |
| 7 | Steven Samuel | General Surgery | IN | $630.4K | 668 | $943.78 |
| 8 | Vahe Melkonyan | Vascular Surgery | CA | $624.3K | 512 | $1.2K |
| 9 | Christopher Boyes | Vascular Surgery | FL | $581.5K | 551 | $1.1K |
| 10 | John Chuback | Vascular Surgery | NJ | $547.8K | 445 | $1.2K |
| 11 | Elliot Sambol | General Surgery | NJ | $520.7K | 423 | $1.2K |
| 12 | Dominic Tolitano | Cardiac Surgery | IL | $497.0K | 506 | $982.28 |
| 13 | Ravi Sharma | Vascular Surgery | FL | $484.9K | 487 | $995.70 |
| 14 | Hadi Shalhoub | Vascular Surgery | FL | $481.2K | 473 | $1.0K |
| 15 | Anjani Thakur | General Surgery | CA | $469.3K | 416 | $1.1K |
| 16 | Dev Batra | Diagnostic Radiology | TX | $464.0K | 438 | $1.1K |
| 17 | Gerard Vitale | Vascular Surgery | NY | $456.6K | 359 | $1.3K |
| 18 | John Hogg | Diagnostic Radiology | TX | $451.0K | 456 | $988.94 |
| 19 | Sean Stewart | Emergency Medicine | MD | $437.9K | 387 | $1.1K |
| 20 | Terrill Applewhite | Internal Medicine | IL | $437.4K | 430 | $1.0K |
| 21 | Lonnie Harrison | Cardiology | AR | $424.0K | 468 | $906.04 |
| 22 | Thomas Lackey | General Surgery | FL | $423.9K | 486 | $872.15 |
| 23 | Elizabeth Pensler | Vascular Surgery | MI | $417.5K | 399 | $1.0K |
| 24 | Michael Bezuevsky | Vascular Surgery | NY | $413.7K | 325 | $1.3K |
| 25 | Adam Phillips | General Surgery | FL | $413.0K | 461 | $895.84 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $12.9M | 12.9K | 143 | $90.1K |
| CA | $10.8M | 9.3K | 100 | $107.7K |
| TX | $7.6M | 7.5K | 106 | $71.8K |
| NY | $7.6M | 6.1K | 75 | $101.4K |
| NJ | $4.6M | 3.8K | 43 | $107.3K |
| AZ | $4.0M | 4.0K | 53 | $76.2K |
| IL | $3.3M | 3.1K | 46 | $71.2K |
| MD | $2.6M | 2.3K | 36 | $73.0K |
| NC | $2.2M | 2.3K | 31 | $71.8K |
| CO | $2.2M | 2.1K | 22 | $100.2K |
| IN | $1.9M | 2.0K | 18 | $107.1K |
| TN | $1.9M | 2.0K | 34 | $56.2K |
| OH | $1.7M | 1.8K | 19 | $90.9K |
| NV | $1.6M | 1.6K | 10 | $163.0K |
| MI | $1.6M | 1.5K | 28 | $56.3K |
| VA | $1.4M | 1.3K | 17 | $84.7K |
| GA | $1.3M | 1.3K | 25 | $51.6K |
| PA | $1.3M | 1.3K | 20 | $63.7K |
| AR | $1.2M | 1.3K | 8 | $150.2K |
| CT | $1.2M | 1.1K | 18 | $66.6K |
| LA | $1.0M | 1.1K | 16 | $62.5K |
| AL | $924.4K | 1.0K | 10 | $92.4K |
| MO | $874.5K | 938 | 12 | $72.9K |
| SC | $763.7K | 819 | 16 | $47.7K |
| NM | $340.4K | 345 | 5 | $68.1K |
| WI | $327.8K | 326 | 3 | $109.3K |
| KS | $315.0K | 354 | 5 | $63.0K |
| KY | $311.6K | 319 | 5 | $62.3K |
| IA | $295.3K | 318 | 5 | $59.1K |
| MN | $274.1K | 266 | 6 | $45.7K |
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.