$388.1M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 93656 (Comprehensive electrophysiologic evaluation with catheter destruction of abnormality causing atrial fibrillation (uncoordinated contraction of upper chambers of heart) by pulmonary vein isolation) received $388.1M in total Medicare payments.
Across 440.7K services, the average Medicare payment was $880.59 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $17.9M | 20.3K | — |
| 2015 | $22.6M | 25.1K | +26.1% |
| 2016 | $27.4M | 30.5K | +21.3% |
| 2017 | $31.6M | 35.1K | +15.1% |
| 2018 | $37.9M | 42.0K | +19.9% |
| 2019 | $44.7M | 48.7K | +18.1% |
| 2020 | $42.3M | 45.5K | -5.4% |
| 2021 | $52.2M | 57.1K | +23.3% |
| 2022 | $57.2M | 63.7K | +9.7% |
| 2023 | $54.2M | 72.6K | -5.3% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinesh Sharma | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | FL | $177.2K | 214 | $827.90 |
| 2 | Brett Gidney | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | CA | $170.8K | 224 | $762.60 |
| 3 | Mark Bowers | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | CA | $154.4K | 204 | $757.07 |
| 4 | Arash Aryana | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | CA | $141.6K | 188 | $753.37 |
| 5 | Joseph Levine | Cardiology | NY | $138.9K | 146 | $951.60 |
| 6 | Larry Chinitz | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | NY | $134.9K | 148 | $911.77 |
| 7 | Saumil Oza | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | FL | $131.6K | 167 | $787.93 |
| 8 | Devi Nair | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | AR | $128.4K | 197 | $651.96 |
| 9 | Michael Loguidice | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | AR | $125.8K | 187 | $672.86 |
| 10 | Dilip Mathew | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | FL | $118.1K | 152 | $777.02 |
| 11 | Brian Betensky | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | FL | $116.9K | 147 | $795.29 |
| 12 | Peter Chang Sing | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | CA | $114.1K | 152 | $750.36 |
| 13 | David Hoch | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | NY | $103.2K | 109 | $947.03 |
| 14 | Antonio Moretta | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | FL | $101.0K | 130 | $777.13 |
| 15 | Chad Brodt | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | CA | $99.9K | 165 | $605.29 |
| 16 | Sidney Peykar | Cardiology | FL | $98.6K | 122 | $807.90 |
| 17 | David Lan | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | TN | $95.6K | 139 | $687.57 |
| 18 | Andrea Natale | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | TX | $94.9K | 128 | $741.63 |
| 19 | Moussa Mansour | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | MA | $94.7K | 121 | $782.84 |
| 20 | Jason Appelbaum | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | FL | $91.5K | 111 | $824.21 |
| 21 | David Burkland | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | TX | $90.6K | 119 | $761.00 |
| 22 | Frank Cuoco | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | SC | $90.4K | 129 | $701.16 |
| 23 | Brian Greet | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | TX | $90.0K | 118 | $762.64 |
| 24 | Monica Lo | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | AR | $87.2K | 129 | $676.13 |
| 25 | David Newton | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | GA | $86.6K | 118 | $734.23 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $5.8M | 7.3K | 169 | $34.2K |
| CA | $5.3M | 7.3K | 160 | $33.4K |
| TX | $4.3M | 5.9K | 153 | $28.1K |
| NY | $3.8M | 4.3K | 122 | $30.9K |
| IL | $2.4M | 3.0K | 96 | $25.1K |
| VA | $2.2M | 3.0K | 68 | $32.6K |
| PA | $2.2M | 2.9K | 111 | $19.6K |
| OH | $1.9M | 2.5K | 88 | $21.2K |
| MA | $1.7M | 2.2K | 61 | $28.3K |
| AZ | $1.6M | 2.2K | 57 | $27.7K |
| NC | $1.5M | 2.2K | 63 | $24.4K |
| TN | $1.5M | 2.3K | 57 | $26.6K |
| NJ | $1.4M | 1.8K | 50 | $28.5K |
| GA | $1.4M | 2.0K | 58 | $24.6K |
| SC | $1.3M | 1.8K | 38 | $33.1K |
| IN | $1.2M | 1.8K | 56 | $21.5K |
| MI | $1.2M | 1.6K | 63 | $19.1K |
| WA | $1.1M | 1.5K | 42 | $25.9K |
| MD | $1.0M | 1.3K | 38 | $27.0K |
| AL | $917.9K | 1.3K | 32 | $28.7K |
| CO | $913.5K | 1.2K | 39 | $23.4K |
| MO | $796.5K | 1.1K | 32 | $24.9K |
| AR | $631.7K | 943 | 14 | $45.1K |
| OK | $625.7K | 894 | 19 | $32.9K |
| WI | $601.8K | 880 | 35 | $17.2K |
| KS | $601.0K | 875 | 25 | $24.0K |
| MN | $554.6K | 793 | 39 | $14.2K |
| LA | $525.6K | 711 | 24 | $21.9K |
| IA | $496.6K | 743 | 24 | $20.7K |
| UT | $457.5K | 647 | 16 | $28.6K |
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.