$274.9M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 77002 (Fluoroscopic guidance for needle placement) received $274.9M in total Medicare payments.
Across 4.3M services, the average Medicare payment was $64.61 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $19.3M | 320.4K | — |
| 2015 | $20.7M | 371.3K | +7.4% |
| 2016 | $24.3M | 430.3K | +17.3% |
| 2017 | $23.4M | 412.8K | -4.0% |
| 2018 | $23.5M | 409.7K | +0.6% |
| 2019 | $28.8M | 462.3K | +22.5% |
| 2020 | $27.5M | 400.0K | -4.4% |
| 2021 | $35.7M | 476.5K | +29.7% |
| 2022 | $36.7M | 491.4K | +3.0% |
| 2023 | $35.0M | 480.3K | -4.7% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rahul Khapekar | Family Practice | IL | $1.3M | 14.1K | $94.98 |
| 2 | Ermin Arriola | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | IL | $603.0K | 6.3K | $95.16 |
| 3 | Hubert Franke | General Practice | NJ | $596.4K | 5.8K | $103.04 |
| 4 | Robert Streisand | Vascular Surgery | NY | $574.9K | 5.2K | $110.58 |
| 5 | Pamela Harston | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | KY | $444.9K | 5.4K | $82.37 |
| 6 | Nicholas Manolitsis | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | IL | $444.2K | 4.7K | $95.27 |
| 7 | Faisal Ali | Internal Medicine | NY | $353.1K | 3.2K | $110.51 |
| 8 | Robert Prichep | General Surgery | NY | $332.9K | 3.1K | $105.77 |
| 9 | Duan Copeland | General Practice | AZ | $314.0K | 3.6K | $87.50 |
| 10 | Jason Fogg | Pain Management | KY | $276.4K | 3.3K | $83.66 |
| 11 | Valerie Starnes | Nurse Practitioner | FL | $269.5K | 3.4K | $78.79 |
| 12 | Joezer Lugo Ranal | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | PR | $246.8K | 2.8K | $87.10 |
| 13 | Patricia Bornhorst | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | OH | $234.4K | 2.8K | $84.78 |
| 14 | Lisa Persyn | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | TX | $212.8K | 2.5K | $85.38 |
| 15 | Peter Minneci | Family Practice | VA | $203.2K | 2.3K | $89.12 |
| 16 | John Flores | Family Practice | TX | $189.6K | 2.0K | $92.58 |
| 17 | Scot Paris | General Surgery | PA | $184.3K | 1.8K | $102.20 |
| 18 | Samuel Uzabel | Hospice and Palliative Care | FL | $181.4K | 2.1K | $88.12 |
| 19 | Daniel Mcmanus | Emergency Medicine | SC | $171.5K | 2.0K | $83.83 |
| 20 | Katrina Nguyen | Emergency Medicine | FL | $156.1K | 1.6K | $96.56 |
| 21 | Amit Jangam | Family Practice | NC | $150.7K | 1.8K | $85.44 |
| 22 | Sean Whalen | Diagnostic Radiology | NC | $147.3K | 1.8K | $82.15 |
| 23 | James Mcgraw | Physician Assistant | GA | $140.9K | 1.8K | $76.79 |
| 24 | Kenneth Smith | Emergency Medicine | OH | $130.2K | 1.5K | $84.81 |
| 25 | Fletcher Reynolds | Orthopedic Surgery | FL | $129.8K | 1.4K | $94.55 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL | $4.2M | 49.4K | 326 | $12.9K |
| FL | $4.0M | 49.7K | 576 | $7.0K |
| NY | $3.3M | 34.6K | 307 | $10.9K |
| TX | $3.1M | 42.1K | 562 | $5.5K |
| CA | $1.6M | 21.5K | 438 | $3.7K |
| NC | $1.5M | 20.6K | 297 | $5.0K |
| VA | $1.5M | 20.0K | 222 | $6.7K |
| AZ | $1.4M | 18.8K | 231 | $6.2K |
| NJ | $1.4M | 14.7K | 137 | $10.2K |
| GA | $1.4M | 19.1K | 235 | $5.9K |
| KY | $1.2M | 16.4K | 119 | $10.1K |
| SC | $1.0M | 14.1K | 151 | $6.8K |
| OH | $864.3K | 14.0K | 227 | $3.8K |
| PA | $808.7K | 12.2K | 262 | $3.1K |
| MA | $595.6K | 11.8K | 208 | $2.9K |
| MI | $528.9K | 8.4K | 196 | $2.7K |
| MO | $513.6K | 10.2K | 186 | $2.8K |
| MD | $459.9K | 6.3K | 126 | $3.6K |
| WA | $420.8K | 6.3K | 169 | $2.5K |
| MN | $374.2K | 6.7K | 175 | $2.1K |
| UT | $368.2K | 4.9K | 87 | $4.2K |
| WI | $350.1K | 7.0K | 184 | $1.9K |
| NE | $326.0K | 5.2K | 66 | $4.9K |
| IN | $322.5K | 6.7K | 177 | $1.8K |
| TN | $315.7K | 5.4K | 115 | $2.7K |
| CO | $271.8K | 3.6K | 85 | $3.2K |
| PR | $248.1K | 2.8K | 2 | $124.1K |
| IA | $246.5K | 4.3K | 85 | $2.9K |
| OK | $229.0K | 4.7K | 100 | $2.3K |
| NH | $203.4K | 3.7K | 71 | $2.9K |
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.