$1.1B in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 37227 (Removal of plaque and insertion of stents in arteries of leg) received $1.1B in total Medicare payments.
Across 116.3K services, the average Medicare payment was $9.5K per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $77.0M | 9.1K | — |
| 2015 | $90.2M | 10.1K | +17.2% |
| 2016 | $101.9M | 10.9K | +12.9% |
| 2017 | $114.4M | 12.2K | +12.3% |
| 2018 | $123.2M | 12.6K | +7.7% |
| 2019 | $147.8M | 13.6K | +19.9% |
| 2020 | $134.4M | 12.7K | -9.0% |
| 2021 | $119.9M | 12.3K | -10.8% |
| 2022 | $101.9M | 11.7K | -15.0% |
| 2023 | $88.6M | 11.0K | -13.1% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samer Saiedy | Vascular Surgery | MD | $1.6M | 178 | $9.2K |
| 2 | Paramjit Chopra | Interventional Radiology | IL | $1.5M | 215 | $6.8K |
| 3 | David O'connor | Vascular Surgery | NJ | $1.4M | 169 | $8.2K |
| 4 | Hardeep Ahluwalia | Vascular Surgery | CA | $1.3M | 114 | $11.1K |
| 5 | Pablo Guala | Peripheral Vascular Disease | FL | $1.2M | 156 | $8.0K |
| 6 | Dennis Kwon | Interventional Radiology | NJ | $1.2M | 122 | $9.9K |
| 7 | Joseph Degregorio | Cardiology | NJ | $1.1M | 108 | $10.0K |
| 8 | Prateek Gupta | Vascular Surgery | TN | $1.1M | 147 | $7.3K |
| 9 | Karthik Gujja | Cardiology | NY | $988.4K | 91 | $10.9K |
| 10 | Steven Hutchinson | Vascular Surgery | KS | $983.9K | 149 | $6.6K |
| 11 | Lawrence Goldstein | Vascular Surgery | CA | $971.4K | 85 | $11.4K |
| 12 | Chad Laurich | Vascular Surgery | SD | $894.6K | 101 | $8.9K |
| 13 | Rajiv Nagesetty | Vascular Surgery | CA | $854.0K | 70 | $12.2K |
| 14 | Manuel Gonzalez | Peripheral Vascular Disease | FL | $845.3K | 97 | $8.7K |
| 15 | Amir Salem | Diagnostic Radiology | NY | $771.5K | 79 | $9.8K |
| 16 | Amit Shah | Vascular Surgery | NY | $741.1K | 72 | $10.3K |
| 17 | Mark Zuzga | Vascular Surgery | FL | $735.5K | 87 | $8.5K |
| 18 | Lev Pukin | Interventional Radiology | NY | $729.5K | 70 | $10.4K |
| 19 | Anton Dias Perera | Vascular Surgery | TN | $710.6K | 94 | $7.6K |
| 20 | Aalok Patel | Interventional Cardiology | FL | $689.9K | 86 | $8.0K |
| 21 | Daniel Simon | Interventional Radiology | NJ | $677.7K | 67 | $10.1K |
| 22 | James Mcguckin | Interventional Radiology | PA | $674.9K | 83 | $8.1K |
| 23 | Ravi Pulipati | Vascular Surgery | NY | $641.9K | 58 | $11.1K |
| 24 | Nikhil Patel | Interventional Radiology | CA | $617.6K | 65 | $9.5K |
| 25 | Ahmad Abu-Ghaida | Vascular Surgery | MD | $613.8K | 65 | $9.4K |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $13.8M | 1.8K | 54 | $254.7K |
| CA | $12.7M | 1.5K | 49 | $259.5K |
| NY | $9.2M | 981 | 28 | $328.9K |
| MD | $7.7M | 830 | 26 | $298.0K |
| NJ | $7.7M | 791 | 18 | $425.1K |
| TX | $7.0M | 848 | 35 | $199.2K |
| TN | $4.2M | 553 | 15 | $279.3K |
| IL | $2.6M | 381 | 7 | $378.3K |
| PA | $2.2M | 316 | 10 | $221.7K |
| KS | $1.9M | 285 | 8 | $241.3K |
| MI | $1.9M | 233 | 10 | $191.4K |
| SD | $1.6M | 222 | 6 | $270.0K |
| AZ | $1.5M | 238 | 7 | $219.3K |
| MA | $1.2M | 157 | 8 | $154.3K |
| GA | $1.2M | 180 | 9 | $130.9K |
| AL | $1.1M | 154 | 8 | $136.7K |
| VA | $1.1M | 112 | 5 | $211.7K |
| MS | $1.0M | 154 | 4 | $254.4K |
| OK | $969.2K | 183 | 6 | $161.5K |
| OR | $778.5K | 92 | 4 | $194.6K |
| NC | $681.2K | 107 | 5 | $136.2K |
| KY | $634.1K | 81 | 3 | $211.4K |
| NV | $566.7K | 63 | 3 | $188.9K |
| NE | $530.0K | 118 | 4 | $132.5K |
| WA | $517.8K | 52 | 2 | $258.9K |
| LA | $489.7K | 80 | 4 | $122.4K |
| SC | $469.4K | 59 | 3 | $156.5K |
| IN | $467.7K | 58 | 1 | $467.7K |
| AR | $396.5K | 87 | 3 | $132.2K |
| HI | $364.1K | 41 | 1 | $364.1K |
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.