$255.2M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 65778 (Placement of amniotic membrane on eye surface for wound healing) received $255.2M in total Medicare payments.
Across 227.7K services, the average Medicare payment was $1.1K per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $4.1M | 3.7K | — |
| 2015 | $7.9M | 7.4K | +94.0% |
| 2016 | $15.4M | 13.8K | +93.8% |
| 2017 | $23.1M | 21.3K | +50.4% |
| 2018 | $27.3M | 24.6K | +18.1% |
| 2019 | $32.8M | 28.8K | +20.1% |
| 2020 | $26.6M | 23.1K | -18.8% |
| 2021 | $34.6M | 28.7K | +30.1% |
| 2022 | $40.1M | 35.6K | +15.9% |
| 2023 | $43.4M | 40.7K | +8.3% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helen Boerman | Optometry | TN | $1.0M | 1.1K | $941.30 |
| 2 | Baljit Sohal | Optometry | CA | $1.0M | 892 | $1.1K |
| 3 | Bradley Hamar | Optometry | CA | $1.0M | 891 | $1.1K |
| 4 | Adam Dao | Ophthalmology | CA | $951.4K | 777 | $1.2K |
| 5 | Elise Svennevik | Optometry | TN | $681.0K | 723 | $941.91 |
| 6 | Sandra Belmont | Ophthalmology | NY | $622.7K | 453 | $1.4K |
| 7 | Sarjan Patel | Ophthalmology | CA | $586.2K | 483 | $1.2K |
| 8 | Vincent Verdi | Ophthalmology | VA | $494.2K | 491 | $1.0K |
| 9 | Christopher Richardson | General Surgery | NV | $448.0K | 442 | $1.0K |
| 10 | Justin Treat | Optometry | CA | $430.7K | 379 | $1.1K |
| 11 | Timothy Anderson | Optometry | MI | $425.8K | 444 | $959.07 |
| 12 | Kellen Kashiwa | Optometry | HI | $425.2K | 353 | $1.2K |
| 13 | Debora Garcia-Zalisnak | Ophthalmology | AZ | $424.7K | 419 | $1.0K |
| 14 | Nicholas Pefkaros | Ophthalmology | FL | $382.4K | 357 | $1.1K |
| 15 | Steven Yaplee | Ophthalmology | CA | $354.0K | 310 | $1.1K |
| 16 | Edward Bustamante | Optometry | TX | $352.7K | 353 | $999.13 |
| 17 | Brian Landrum | Optometry | OH | $344.5K | 356 | $967.58 |
| 18 | Dawn Phillips | Ophthalmology | IL | $337.3K | 310 | $1.1K |
| 19 | Andrew James | Optometry | TX | $335.1K | 326 | $1.0K |
| 20 | Yuna Rapoport | Ophthalmology | NY | $333.1K | 269 | $1.2K |
| 21 | Philip Kramer | Ophthalmology | NY | $331.5K | 258 | $1.3K |
| 22 | Rogelio Cantu | Optometry | TX | $326.4K | 217 | $1.5K |
| 23 | Amir Cohen | Ophthalmology | CT | $314.7K | 247 | $1.3K |
| 24 | Joseph Laya | Optometry | CA | $306.5K | 268 | $1.1K |
| 25 | Sarah Clay | Optometry | OK | $293.8K | 315 | $932.59 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $9.5M | 8.0K | 91 | $104.6K |
| TX | $6.5M | 6.2K | 102 | $63.3K |
| NY | $3.4M | 2.7K | 33 | $101.9K |
| TN | $2.5M | 2.6K | 15 | $166.7K |
| AZ | $2.4M | 2.4K | 27 | $90.3K |
| FL | $2.0M | 1.9K | 38 | $52.2K |
| PA | $1.8M | 1.8K | 30 | $59.3K |
| MI | $1.4M | 1.4K | 15 | $92.8K |
| OH | $1.4M | 1.4K | 19 | $72.2K |
| NJ | $1.2M | 1.0K | 20 | $62.2K |
| NV | $1.1M | 1.1K | 10 | $112.7K |
| VA | $973.5K | 945 | 12 | $81.1K |
| OK | $859.1K | 920 | 14 | $61.4K |
| IL | $836.2K | 781 | 12 | $69.7K |
| AL | $679.0K | 748 | 9 | $75.4K |
| MD | $671.6K | 540 | 11 | $61.1K |
| IN | $576.5K | 592 | 12 | $48.0K |
| GA | $561.8K | 570 | 11 | $51.1K |
| CT | $458.2K | 369 | 3 | $152.7K |
| SC | $443.5K | 466 | 7 | $63.4K |
| MO | $439.2K | 444 | 9 | $48.8K |
| HI | $425.2K | 353 | 1 | $425.2K |
| LA | $406.6K | 445 | 8 | $50.8K |
| KY | $385.1K | 414 | 13 | $29.6K |
| CO | $360.3K | 348 | 7 | $51.5K |
| MS | $358.7K | 401 | 10 | $35.9K |
| WA | $349.1K | 302 | 9 | $38.8K |
| NC | $337.6K | 348 | 10 | $33.8K |
| KS | $283.0K | 293 | 10 | $28.3K |
| UT | $250.0K | 256 | 6 | $41.7K |
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.