$363.1M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 68761 (Closure of tear duct opening using plug) received $363.1M in total Medicare payments.
Across 3.4M services, the average Medicare payment was $107.57 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $30.3M | 284.1K | — |
| 2015 | $30.6M | 296.1K | +0.7% |
| 2016 | $32.4M | 309.3K | +6.1% |
| 2017 | $33.9M | 324.3K | +4.4% |
| 2018 | $37.4M | 349.3K | +10.6% |
| 2019 | $40.1M | 365.3K | +7.1% |
| 2020 | $33.4M | 303.8K | -16.7% |
| 2021 | $40.8M | 362.3K | +22.3% |
| 2022 | $41.2M | 380.3K | +0.8% |
| 2023 | $42.9M | 400.5K | +4.2% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bradley Hamar | Optometry | CA | $484.0K | 7.2K | $67.68 |
| 2 | Baljit Sohal | Optometry | CA | $440.2K | 6.6K | $66.63 |
| 3 | Brent Bellotte | Ophthalmology | FL | $409.0K | 5.4K | $76.38 |
| 4 | Dean Brown | Optometry | WY | $386.8K | 6.2K | $62.56 |
| 5 | Leonard Bley | Ophthalmology | NY | $357.9K | 1.8K | $199.82 |
| 6 | Jeffrey Wine | Optometry | AZ | $304.3K | 4.1K | $74.38 |
| 7 | Adam Dao | Ophthalmology | CA | $269.0K | 1.5K | $176.25 |
| 8 | Eric Wolf | Ophthalmology | NY | $238.6K | 2.8K | $85.45 |
| 9 | Hamlet Minasvand | Optometry | CA | $186.9K | 1.0K | $180.25 |
| 10 | Andrew Cho | Ophthalmology | CA | $186.7K | 1.1K | $177.66 |
| 11 | Jonathan Mennucci | Optometry | CA | $185.4K | 2.8K | $67.31 |
| 12 | Dan Yin | Ophthalmology | MD | $176.8K | 1.2K | $150.44 |
| 13 | Ranjeet Bajwa | Optometry | CA | $174.6K | 1.6K | $112.10 |
| 14 | Gerald Shepps | Ophthalmology | NY | $167.2K | 872 | $191.71 |
| 15 | Satyesh Rana | Ophthalmology | FL | $163.3K | 1.0K | $159.80 |
| 16 | Steven Chang | Ophthalmology | CA | $162.8K | 2.2K | $75.62 |
| 17 | David Sutton | Ophthalmology | NC | $156.6K | 1.9K | $80.33 |
| 18 | Louis Moriano | Optometry | PA | $154.6K | 1.5K | $103.39 |
| 19 | Barry Schechter | Ophthalmology | FL | $153.6K | 1.8K | $87.15 |
| 20 | Joel Solano | Ophthalmology | CA | $153.3K | 1.0K | $151.06 |
| 21 | Reena Patel | Ophthalmology | KS | $149.3K | 1.9K | $77.29 |
| 22 | Albert Rudick | Ophthalmology | NY | $140.1K | 742 | $188.83 |
| 23 | Julian Prosia | Optometry | FL | $138.9K | 1.8K | $76.01 |
| 24 | Dawn Phillips | Ophthalmology | IL | $138.0K | 1.8K | $75.87 |
| 25 | John Rezapour | Ophthalmology | CA | $136.7K | 1.4K | $97.03 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $10.2M | 98.9K | 482 | $21.3K |
| FL | $6.9M | 73.5K | 397 | $17.5K |
| NY | $6.0M | 49.3K | 368 | $16.3K |
| NJ | $2.4M | 15.5K | 163 | $15.0K |
| PA | $1.7M | 12.5K | 144 | $11.9K |
| TX | $1.6M | 11.3K | 170 | $9.2K |
| AZ | $1.2M | 13.8K | 96 | $12.9K |
| IL | $1.2M | 13.8K | 118 | $10.3K |
| VA | $897.6K | 8.3K | 103 | $8.7K |
| MD | $852.5K | 5.8K | 76 | $11.2K |
| NV | $740.3K | 7.5K | 41 | $18.1K |
| MA | $720.8K | 6.4K | 75 | $9.6K |
| MI | $626.6K | 6.3K | 77 | $8.1K |
| NC | $566.2K | 6.2K | 62 | $9.1K |
| TN | $529.5K | 6.0K | 62 | $8.5K |
| CO | $447.9K | 3.3K | 49 | $9.1K |
| LA | $406.6K | 3.0K | 55 | $7.4K |
| OH | $405.7K | 4.2K | 48 | $8.5K |
| WY | $402.0K | 6.3K | 4 | $100.5K |
| GA | $381.6K | 4.0K | 63 | $6.1K |
| CT | $336.5K | 2.4K | 34 | $9.9K |
| KS | $307.7K | 3.6K | 25 | $12.3K |
| IN | $301.1K | 3.4K | 51 | $5.9K |
| HI | $286.7K | 3.4K | 24 | $11.9K |
| SC | $271.7K | 3.0K | 39 | $7.0K |
| WA | $270.6K | 2.3K | 52 | $5.2K |
| AL | $248.2K | 3.2K | 29 | $8.6K |
| MS | $246.5K | 1.8K | 32 | $7.7K |
| UT | $242.8K | 2.4K | 22 | $11.0K |
| OK | $208.3K | 1.7K | 40 | $5.2K |
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.