$290.0M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 70498 (Ct scan of blood vessels of neck with contrast) received $290.0M in total Medicare payments.
Across 4.3M services, the average Medicare payment was $67.16 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $12.5M | 176.7K | — |
| 2015 | $13.4M | 213.0K | +6.8% |
| 2016 | $16.1M | 264.2K | +20.4% |
| 2017 | $23.1M | 328.9K | +43.0% |
| 2018 | $29.1M | 419.8K | +26.1% |
| 2019 | $35.6M | 511.2K | +22.7% |
| 2020 | $34.2M | 491.3K | -4.0% |
| 2021 | $39.5M | 585.5K | +15.4% |
| 2022 | $40.7M | 618.9K | +3.0% |
| 2023 | $45.8M | 707.9K | +12.5% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zhi Huang | Diagnostic Radiology | MD | $42.4K | 681 | $62.28 |
| 2 | Joseph Nguyen | Diagnostic Radiology | TX | $38.9K | 599 | $64.93 |
| 3 | Joshua Albrektson | Diagnostic Radiology | MN | $38.8K | 593 | $65.50 |
| 4 | Hannu Huhdanpaa | Diagnostic Radiology | WA | $38.6K | 587 | $65.71 |
| 5 | Alfonso Urdaneta-Moncada | Diagnostic Radiology | WA | $37.2K | 584 | $63.78 |
| 6 | Michal Klysik | Diagnostic Radiology | TX | $36.2K | 570 | $63.55 |
| 7 | Eugene Kim | Diagnostic Radiology | MN | $36.0K | 576 | $62.44 |
| 8 | Steven Hake | Diagnostic Radiology | CO | $35.7K | 284 | $125.82 |
| 9 | Kandarp Patel | Cardiology | TN | $35.2K | 276 | $127.40 |
| 10 | Amar Singh | Diagnostic Radiology | TX | $31.4K | 452 | $69.54 |
| 11 | Daniel Susanto | Diagnostic Radiology | WA | $31.2K | 496 | $62.91 |
| 12 | Michelle Dubes | Diagnostic Radiology | AZ | $30.7K | 422 | $72.72 |
| 13 | Katherine Mullen | Diagnostic Radiology | MA | $30.7K | 488 | $62.87 |
| 14 | Jerry Chang | Diagnostic Radiology | CA | $30.4K | 177 | $172.01 |
| 15 | Craig Harr | Diagnostic Radiology | TX | $29.1K | 482 | $60.35 |
| 16 | Joseph Curcio | Diagnostic Radiology | OH | $27.4K | 445 | $61.66 |
| 17 | Candice Henry | Diagnostic Radiology | OR | $27.3K | 433 | $63.01 |
| 18 | Bernadette Diegnan | Diagnostic Radiology | AZ | $27.3K | 369 | $73.94 |
| 19 | Jeffrey Jones | Interventional Radiology | NC | $27.2K | 285 | $95.60 |
| 20 | Scott Didier | Diagnostic Radiology | TN | $27.1K | 463 | $58.57 |
| 21 | Pedro Vieco | Diagnostic Radiology | WA | $26.9K | 421 | $63.91 |
| 22 | Duc Tran | Diagnostic Radiology | OH | $26.7K | 439 | $60.81 |
| 23 | Albert Sohn | Diagnostic Radiology | FL | $26.6K | 394 | $67.53 |
| 24 | Mark Pfleger | Diagnostic Radiology | WA | $26.6K | 413 | $64.41 |
| 25 | Neil Bansal | Diagnostic Radiology | ND | $26.5K | 392 | $67.65 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $4.2M | 61.6K | 1.1K | $3.7K |
| TX | $3.3M | 50.8K | 832 | $4.0K |
| FL | $3.0M | 42.9K | 808 | $3.7K |
| NY | $2.5M | 35.5K | 569 | $4.5K |
| MN | $2.0M | 31.4K | 481 | $4.1K |
| PA | $1.9M | 30.9K | 587 | $3.3K |
| IL | $1.9M | 28.5K | 575 | $3.2K |
| NC | $1.5M | 24.2K | 396 | $3.8K |
| MA | $1.5M | 23.6K | 389 | $3.9K |
| MI | $1.4M | 22.6K | 355 | $4.0K |
| OH | $1.3M | 21.7K | 388 | $3.4K |
| VA | $1.3M | 19.7K | 291 | $4.3K |
| WA | $1.2M | 19.7K | 205 | $6.1K |
| TN | $1.2M | 19.4K | 353 | $3.4K |
| GA | $1.2M | 19.0K | 335 | $3.6K |
| CO | $1.2M | 18.5K | 237 | $5.0K |
| NJ | $1.2M | 16.4K | 279 | $4.2K |
| MO | $1.0M | 16.7K | 287 | $3.6K |
| MD | $956.4K | 13.8K | 248 | $3.9K |
| AZ | $910.9K | 13.4K | 201 | $4.5K |
| IN | $829.2K | 13.7K | 226 | $3.7K |
| WI | $814.7K | 13.6K | 320 | $2.5K |
| SC | $770.1K | 12.4K | 204 | $3.8K |
| CT | $650.4K | 9.8K | 168 | $3.9K |
| AL | $590.1K | 9.7K | 240 | $2.5K |
| OR | $517.5K | 8.5K | 176 | $2.9K |
| KY | $501.1K | 8.3K | 167 | $3.0K |
| OK | $482.6K | 8.0K | 161 | $3.0K |
| AR | $478.5K | 8.0K | 129 | $3.7K |
| LA | $473.6K | 7.5K | 197 | $2.4K |
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.