$365.5M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 97597 (Removal of tissue from wound, 20.0 sq cm or less) received $365.5M in total Medicare payments.
Across 7.8M services, the average Medicare payment was $46.62 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $42.2M | 979.8K | — |
| 2015 | $39.0M | 935.2K | -7.8% |
| 2016 | $35.8M | 912.4K | -8.1% |
| 2017 | $34.4M | 885.5K | -4.1% |
| 2018 | $37.0M | 858.7K | +7.8% |
| 2019 | $37.5M | 801.7K | +1.4% |
| 2020 | $36.6M | 664.8K | -2.4% |
| 2021 | $36.8M | 642.8K | +0.4% |
| 2022 | $33.1M | 578.1K | -9.9% |
| 2023 | $33.0M | 580.1K | -0.5% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alan Bienstock | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | NY | $257.9K | 2.8K | $93.49 |
| 2 | Michael Reed | Physical Therapist in Private Practice | WY | $197.8K | 2.6K | $77.01 |
| 3 | Bachir Younes | Infectious Disease | CA | $188.0K | 2.2K | $83.85 |
| 4 | Ancel Rogers | General Surgery | CA | $183.8K | 4.0K | $45.74 |
| 5 | Virgil Hernandez | Podiatry | CA | $167.7K | 1.8K | $91.14 |
| 6 | Barbara Dangerfield | Physical Therapist in Private Practice | CA | $112.6K | 1.3K | $86.55 |
| 7 | Jeremiah Graff | Podiatry | TX | $102.2K | 1.4K | $72.81 |
| 8 | Bobby Pourziaee | Podiatry | CA | $100.1K | 1.2K | $80.16 |
| 9 | Jon Heller | Podiatry | NJ | $97.2K | 1.1K | $85.35 |
| 10 | Mobolaji Ogunsakin | Internal Medicine | GA | $86.5K | 1.3K | $68.92 |
| 11 | Haris Mirza | Infectious Disease | FL | $86.1K | 1.1K | $74.91 |
| 12 | Nicholas Romansky | Podiatry | PA | $84.7K | 991 | $85.52 |
| 13 | Richard Egerman | Podiatry | FL | $77.8K | 966 | $80.54 |
| 14 | Monica Lucas | Physical Therapist in Private Practice | CA | $76.6K | 867 | $88.32 |
| 15 | Bruce Pinker | Podiatry | NY | $76.1K | 797 | $95.46 |
| 16 | Emma Denis | Podiatry | FL | $75.0K | 1.0K | $73.85 |
| 17 | Roger Tsutsumi | Podiatry | CA | $71.6K | 948 | $75.56 |
| 18 | Michael Scanlon | Podiatry | NY | $71.5K | 753 | $94.94 |
| 19 | Thomas Rambacher | Podiatry | CA | $71.2K | 784 | $90.82 |
| 20 | Gregory Eck | Physical Therapist in Private Practice | WI | $69.9K | 939 | $74.48 |
| 21 | Charles Rhodus | Podiatry | TX | $69.1K | 945 | $73.17 |
| 22 | Matthew Kindle | Podiatry | TX | $67.9K | 947 | $71.73 |
| 23 | Richard Salm | Podiatry | FL | $66.9K | 905 | $73.92 |
| 24 | Sherri Boos | Physical Therapist in Private Practice | OK | $65.7K | 927 | $70.92 |
| 25 | Richard Graves | Podiatry | CA | $65.4K | 766 | $85.36 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $4.6M | 70.9K | 629 | $7.3K |
| CA | $3.8M | 55.4K | 439 | $8.6K |
| NY | $3.4M | 43.2K | 458 | $7.5K |
| TX | $2.2M | 38.1K | 380 | $5.9K |
| IL | $1.9M | 33.2K | 329 | $5.9K |
| PA | $1.9M | 33.5K | 354 | $5.4K |
| NJ | $1.4M | 21.1K | 217 | $6.4K |
| MD | $776.3K | 11.9K | 159 | $4.9K |
| TN | $715.2K | 14.2K | 141 | $5.1K |
| MA | $694.0K | 14.0K | 143 | $4.9K |
| GA | $675.3K | 13.7K | 150 | $4.5K |
| OH | $639.2K | 12.5K | 180 | $3.6K |
| NC | $633.6K | 13.8K | 204 | $3.1K |
| MI | $626.8K | 11.9K | 185 | $3.4K |
| VA | $624.0K | 12.1K | 146 | $4.3K |
| OK | $598.3K | 12.7K | 75 | $8.0K |
| AZ | $543.6K | 9.7K | 120 | $4.5K |
| WI | $540.3K | 12.4K | 155 | $3.5K |
| WY | $472.8K | 7.2K | 29 | $16.3K |
| MO | $441.1K | 11.2K | 131 | $3.4K |
| IA | $364.7K | 9.9K | 84 | $4.3K |
| IN | $361.1K | 8.0K | 110 | $3.3K |
| CT | $352.8K | 7.1K | 84 | $4.2K |
| MN | $337.0K | 7.0K | 72 | $4.7K |
| KY | $336.8K | 8.5K | 83 | $4.1K |
| WA | $321.4K | 6.4K | 86 | $3.7K |
| SC | $311.3K | 7.7K | 79 | $3.9K |
| AL | $304.0K | 7.2K | 68 | $4.5K |
| CO | $256.9K | 4.1K | 68 | $3.8K |
| LA | $231.8K | 4.8K | 69 | $3.4K |
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.