$339.8M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 98942 (Chiropractic manipulative treatment, 5 spinal regions) received $339.8M in total Medicare payments.
Across 9.0M services, the average Medicare payment was $37.94 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $45.8M | 1.2M | — |
| 2015 | $42.1M | 1.1M | -8.0% |
| 2016 | $34.1M | 915.2K | -19.0% |
| 2017 | $28.3M | 770.7K | -17.0% |
| 2018 | $30.9M | 822.2K | +9.2% |
| 2019 | $34.0M | 872.9K | +9.9% |
| 2020 | $29.5M | 752.8K | -13.3% |
| 2021 | $33.3M | 851.9K | +13.1% |
| 2022 | $31.2M | 825.5K | -6.5% |
| 2023 | $30.6M | 823.3K | -2.0% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Micah Ries | Chiropractic | CA | $244.7K | 6.2K | $39.70 |
| 2 | Yoav Nagar | Chiropractic | CA | $154.8K | 3.6K | $43.03 |
| 3 | Ronald Simms | Chiropractic | CA | $153.1K | 3.8K | $40.74 |
| 4 | Richard Abercrombie | Chiropractic | NM | $143.5K | 4.1K | $34.87 |
| 5 | Vitaliy Yudkin | Chiropractic | CA | $136.6K | 3.1K | $43.46 |
| 6 | Houman Safaei | Chiropractic | CA | $131.4K | 3.0K | $43.78 |
| 7 | Brian Rector | Chiropractic | CA | $121.6K | 3.2K | $37.73 |
| 8 | Michael Moffat | Chiropractic | CA | $110.1K | 2.9K | $37.92 |
| 9 | Nicole Javaherian | Chiropractic | CA | $105.7K | 2.5K | $41.88 |
| 10 | Adam Van Bezey | Chiropractic | CA | $103.1K | 2.8K | $36.43 |
| 11 | Nichole Sullivan | Chiropractic | GA | $97.8K | 2.6K | $37.94 |
| 12 | Cherine Reid | Chiropractic | VA | $92.9K | 2.4K | $38.21 |
| 13 | Douglas Seckendorf | Chiropractic | NY | $90.7K | 2.3K | $39.63 |
| 14 | Joseph Maloof | Chiropractic | CA | $90.6K | 2.3K | $39.56 |
| 15 | James Slusher | Chiropractic | CA | $87.5K | 2.1K | $42.11 |
| 16 | Jeffrey Chamberlain | Chiropractic | PA | $86.3K | 2.1K | $40.18 |
| 17 | Teresa Yin | Chiropractic | CA | $82.4K | 2.0K | $42.16 |
| 18 | Adam Johnson | Chiropractic | NJ | $82.0K | 2.1K | $39.00 |
| 19 | Michael David | Chiropractic | FL | $80.7K | 2.1K | $38.01 |
| 20 | John Hanna | Chiropractic | NC | $79.4K | 2.3K | $34.64 |
| 21 | Kimberly Harman | Chiropractic | VA | $78.2K | 2.3K | $34.29 |
| 22 | James Goodman | Chiropractic | AZ | $75.3K | 2.2K | $34.90 |
| 23 | Muhammad Asadullah | Chiropractic | IL | $75.0K | 2.0K | $36.67 |
| 24 | Joshua Partain | Chiropractic | TX | $75.0K | 2.2K | $33.84 |
| 25 | Clarence Ungerank | Chiropractic | AR | $74.8K | 2.2K | $34.73 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $6.2M | 150.8K | 301 | $20.5K |
| NJ | $2.8M | 70.6K | 217 | $13.0K |
| TX | $2.2M | 62.0K | 183 | $12.1K |
| MI | $2.2M | 61.0K | 267 | $8.1K |
| FL | $1.5M | 40.5K | 118 | $12.3K |
| PA | $1.3M | 36.9K | 114 | $11.7K |
| AZ | $1.2M | 31.9K | 75 | $15.4K |
| VA | $1.1M | 30.8K | 68 | $16.5K |
| WA | $825.9K | 22.6K | 98 | $8.4K |
| OH | $668.6K | 19.0K | 52 | $12.9K |
| NY | $630.7K | 15.9K | 39 | $16.2K |
| AL | $605.0K | 18.1K | 61 | $9.9K |
| AR | $595.5K | 17.3K | 38 | $15.7K |
| GA | $592.7K | 16.2K | 59 | $10.0K |
| IL | $552.5K | 15.7K | 48 | $11.5K |
| MA | $548.5K | 13.9K | 50 | $11.0K |
| SC | $465.8K | 13.3K | 56 | $8.3K |
| MD | $465.8K | 12.1K | 33 | $14.1K |
| NM | $436.8K | 12.6K | 31 | $14.1K |
| TN | $397.9K | 11.5K | 32 | $12.4K |
| MO | $386.9K | 10.9K | 38 | $10.2K |
| KS | $376.5K | 11.0K | 43 | $8.8K |
| ID | $368.9K | 10.7K | 35 | $10.5K |
| NC | $367.3K | 11.0K | 36 | $10.2K |
| CO | $324.7K | 8.7K | 34 | $9.5K |
| IA | $293.0K | 8.4K | 43 | $6.8K |
| NH | $290.3K | 8.1K | 30 | $9.7K |
| OK | $269.4K | 7.7K | 19 | $14.2K |
| UT | $251.2K | 7.1K | 25 | $10.0K |
| NE | $190.0K | 5.5K | 26 | $7.3K |
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.