$326.0M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 64636 (Destruction of lower or sacral spinal facet joint nerves using imaging guidance, each additional facet joint) received $326.0M in total Medicare payments.
Across 3.3M services, the average Medicare payment was $99.00 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $25.9M | 268.1K | — |
| 2015 | $28.2M | 303.2K | +9.2% |
| 2016 | $31.9M | 347.7K | +13.1% |
| 2017 | $34.2M | 378.6K | +7.2% |
| 2018 | $36.6M | 404.3K | +7.0% |
| 2019 | $38.4M | 417.7K | +4.9% |
| 2020 | $34.5M | 361.8K | -10.2% |
| 2021 | $33.0M | 339.5K | -4.4% |
| 2022 | $32.7M | 248.8K | -0.9% |
| 2023 | $30.6M | 223.6K | -6.6% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Kendall | Interventional Pain Management | VA | $167.3K | 506 | $330.60 |
| 2 | Ellen Lin | Interventional Pain Management | TX | $131.9K | 499 | $264.30 |
| 3 | Sanjoy Sundaresan | Pain Management | TX | $106.2K | 396 | $268.28 |
| 4 | Martin Martucci | Pain Management | OK | $96.2K | 381 | $252.37 |
| 5 | Emad Attallah-Wasif | Anesthesiology | OK | $90.7K | 370 | $245.15 |
| 6 | Francis Pecoraro | Interventional Pain Management | NC | $90.1K | 489 | $184.29 |
| 7 | Farzad Sabet | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | CA | $87.8K | 296 | $296.50 |
| 8 | Larina Gutenberg | Interventional Pain Management | TX | $82.5K | 309 | $266.92 |
| 9 | Sergey Bogdan | Interventional Pain Management | NY | $80.6K | 306 | $263.30 |
| 10 | Theodore Workman | Pain Management | CA | $78.4K | 259 | $302.68 |
| 11 | Katiuska Dos Santos | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | FL | $75.5K | 409 | $184.51 |
| 12 | Yurii Borshch | Interventional Pain Management | TX | $72.9K | 282 | $258.34 |
| 13 | Donald Erb | Interventional Pain Management | FL | $71.4K | 304 | $234.72 |
| 14 | Jason Rosenberg | Pain Management | SC | $70.4K | 431 | $163.44 |
| 15 | Clifford Baker | Interventional Pain Management | AZ | $70.1K | 258 | $271.62 |
| 16 | Joseph Cartwright | Interventional Pain Management | FL | $67.5K | 364 | $185.41 |
| 17 | Yin Yu | Interventional Pain Management | NJ | $63.2K | 294 | $215.12 |
| 18 | Lee James | Interventional Pain Management | FL | $61.1K | 231 | $264.43 |
| 19 | Forrest Monroe | Anesthesiology | CA | $60.7K | 219 | $276.95 |
| 20 | Ji Han | Pain Management | NY | $60.4K | 170 | $355.03 |
| 21 | Edgar Ramirez | Interventional Pain Management | FL | $60.2K | 221 | $272.31 |
| 22 | Javid Baksh | Pain Management | NC | $59.8K | 254 | $235.45 |
| 23 | John Paul Malayil | Pain Management | AZ | $56.7K | 208 | $272.68 |
| 24 | Matthew Davies | Interventional Pain Management | SC | $56.7K | 348 | $162.96 |
| 25 | Garrett Wright | Anesthesiology | OK | $54.8K | 218 | $251.32 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $4.4M | 27.1K | 430 | $10.3K |
| TX | $2.9M | 20.9K | 437 | $6.7K |
| AZ | $1.7M | 10.2K | 157 | $10.6K |
| CA | $1.5M | 12.3K | 292 | $5.2K |
| VA | $1.5M | 7.3K | 115 | $13.1K |
| NY | $1.5M | 7.6K | 196 | $7.4K |
| NC | $1.3M | 7.7K | 152 | $8.6K |
| OK | $991.9K | 5.6K | 70 | $14.2K |
| SC | $937.7K | 6.1K | 99 | $9.5K |
| IL | $876.8K | 6.4K | 145 | $6.0K |
| MI | $873.4K | 5.1K | 133 | $6.6K |
| PA | $836.6K | 6.9K | 168 | $5.0K |
| KY | $819.1K | 4.4K | 84 | $9.8K |
| TN | $732.8K | 5.8K | 112 | $6.5K |
| GA | $731.3K | 8.7K | 171 | $4.3K |
| OH | $671.1K | 6.7K | 173 | $3.9K |
| UT | $574.7K | 3.4K | 65 | $8.8K |
| MA | $561.9K | 4.0K | 93 | $6.0K |
| NJ | $554.5K | 3.7K | 107 | $5.2K |
| AR | $546.3K | 5.2K | 69 | $7.9K |
| MD | $533.7K | 6.2K | 97 | $5.5K |
| AL | $524.0K | 3.5K | 59 | $8.9K |
| IN | $457.2K | 4.4K | 110 | $4.2K |
| CO | $450.3K | 3.4K | 79 | $5.7K |
| LA | $449.8K | 5.6K | 86 | $5.2K |
| MO | $339.1K | 3.8K | 79 | $4.3K |
| MS | $287.7K | 3.4K | 45 | $6.4K |
| WA | $276.3K | 2.4K | 67 | $4.1K |
| NV | $272.6K | 1.9K | 47 | $5.8K |
| CT | $246.5K | 1.1K | 30 | $8.2K |
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.