$918.1M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 99221 (Initial hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 40 minutes) received $918.1M in total Medicare payments.
Across 11.9M services, the average Medicare payment was $77.21 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $110.5M | 1.4M | — |
| 2015 | $109.3M | 1.4M | -1.1% |
| 2016 | $110.7M | 1.4M | +1.2% |
| 2017 | $109.9M | 1.4M | -0.7% |
| 2018 | $106.3M | 1.4M | -3.3% |
| 2019 | $104.0M | 1.3M | -2.2% |
| 2020 | $83.3M | 1.0M | -19.9% |
| 2021 | $76.5M | 972.3K | -8.2% |
| 2022 | $69.5M | 899.6K | -9.1% |
| 2023 | $38.3M | 609.4K | -44.9% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Veluz | Internal Medicine | MO | $77.1K | 1.2K | $64.41 |
| 2 | Kung-Ming Jan | Internal Medicine | NY | $57.6K | 767 | $75.11 |
| 3 | Blakely Reeder | Nurse Practitioner | AR | $48.7K | 955 | $51.02 |
| 4 | Edbert Morales | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | NY | $46.5K | 594 | $78.23 |
| 5 | Robert Kaylakov | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | NY | $40.7K | 520 | $78.19 |
| 6 | Orlando Rodriguez | Internal Medicine | FL | $36.3K | 497 | $73.00 |
| 7 | Mindi Garner | Internal Medicine | KS | $36.1K | 577 | $62.56 |
| 8 | Rachel Fetner | Endocrinology | NY | $35.7K | 452 | $78.94 |
| 9 | Khalida Pathan | Internal Medicine | CA | $34.5K | 498 | $69.18 |
| 10 | Ashvinkumar Patel | Nephrology | TX | $29.7K | 518 | $57.31 |
| 11 | Abraham Cherukara | Internal Medicine | MA | $29.2K | 413 | $70.72 |
| 12 | Carol Anne Dillon | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | PA | $28.7K | 428 | $66.96 |
| 13 | Houssein Jahamy | Infectious Disease | OH | $28.2K | 456 | $61.75 |
| 14 | Michael Mellman | Endocrinology | FL | $28.0K | 404 | $69.39 |
| 15 | Woo Tak | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | NY | $27.4K | 356 | $77.10 |
| 16 | Visaharan Sivasubramaniam | Hospice and Palliative Care | NY | $26.9K | 348 | $77.16 |
| 17 | Carlos Guida | Hematology-Oncology | FL | $25.6K | 350 | $73.26 |
| 18 | Hana Ilan | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | NY | $25.3K | 324 | $78.23 |
| 19 | Kang Lee | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | TX | $24.7K | 391 | $63.23 |
| 20 | Sabah Varoqua | Infectious Disease | NJ | $24.7K | 351 | $70.36 |
| 21 | Samin Sharma | Cardiology | NY | $24.6K | 324 | $75.99 |
| 22 | Sahib Singh | Internal Medicine | MD | $24.4K | 366 | $66.80 |
| 23 | Edith Borgert | Nurse Practitioner | NV | $23.8K | 426 | $55.96 |
| 24 | Waleed Albert | Infectious Disease | NY | $23.8K | 390 | $61.06 |
| 25 | Muhammad Naveed Siddiqi | Internal Medicine | TX | $23.7K | 370 | $64.12 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NY | $4.3M | 59.7K | 1.7K | $2.6K |
| FL | $3.7M | 56.9K | 1.7K | $2.2K |
| PA | $2.6M | 40.9K | 1.5K | $1.7K |
| TX | $2.2M | 36.0K | 1.1K | $2.0K |
| OH | $2.2M | 36.4K | 1.2K | $1.8K |
| IL | $2.1M | 32.6K | 1.0K | $2.0K |
| CA | $1.9M | 28.0K | 992 | $1.9K |
| NJ | $1.7M | 26.1K | 754 | $2.3K |
| MA | $1.2M | 18.2K | 626 | $1.9K |
| MI | $1.1M | 18.0K | 592 | $1.9K |
| VA | $983.8K | 16.0K | 561 | $1.8K |
| MO | $944.9K | 15.5K | 504 | $1.9K |
| GA | $910.3K | 15.0K | 559 | $1.6K |
| KY | $860.8K | 14.5K | 467 | $1.8K |
| MD | $827.0K | 12.8K | 393 | $2.1K |
| IN | $814.9K | 14.0K | 502 | $1.6K |
| TN | $763.2K | 13.4K | 444 | $1.7K |
| CT | $711.6K | 11.0K | 396 | $1.8K |
| NC | $706.6K | 11.8K | 486 | $1.5K |
| SC | $645.6K | 11.0K | 370 | $1.7K |
| WI | $630.0K | 11.0K | 444 | $1.4K |
| AZ | $478.7K | 7.9K | 316 | $1.5K |
| LA | $453.6K | 7.4K | 220 | $2.1K |
| MS | $424.0K | 7.3K | 203 | $2.1K |
| AR | $413.6K | 7.4K | 196 | $2.1K |
| MN | $412.9K | 7.0K | 330 | $1.3K |
| AL | $392.6K | 6.6K | 224 | $1.8K |
| WV | $390.3K | 6.4K | 227 | $1.7K |
| DE | $358.8K | 5.8K | 158 | $2.3K |
| KS | $343.8K | 5.9K | 202 | $1.7K |
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.