$9.6B in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure 99291 (Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes) received $9.6B in total Medicare payments.
Across 54.2M services, the average Medicare payment was $177.72 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $882.2M | 5.0M | — |
| 2015 | $894.1M | 5.0M | +1.3% |
| 2016 | $911.8M | 5.2M | +2.0% |
| 2017 | $955.0M | 5.4M | +4.7% |
| 2018 | $961.9M | 5.5M | +0.7% |
| 2019 | $992.9M | 5.6M | +3.2% |
| 2020 | $1.1B | 6.0M | +10.5% |
| 2021 | $1.1B | 5.8M | -3.2% |
| 2022 | $962.8M | 5.4M | -9.4% |
| 2023 | $902.8M | 5.3M | -6.2% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abdulkareem Sharaf | Cardiology | CA | $725.1K | 4.1K | $176.63 |
| 2 | Pankaj Shah | Internal Medicine | TX | $379.0K | 2.3K | $163.03 |
| 3 | Alaa Afifi | Cardiac Surgery | CA | $375.1K | 2.1K | $176.60 |
| 4 | Zahra Tabassian | Internal Medicine | CA | $369.6K | 2.1K | $176.75 |
| 5 | Farid Ghebleh | Pulmonary Disease | AZ | $347.0K | 2.1K | $164.40 |
| 6 | Omer Deen | Internal Medicine | CA | $341.9K | 2.0K | $175.05 |
| 7 | Vipin Garg | Critical Care (Intensivists) | NJ | $332.8K | 1.8K | $180.57 |
| 8 | Muhammad Raza | Critical Care (Intensivists) | AZ | $330.5K | 2.0K | $163.62 |
| 9 | Mehmet Demirozu | Internal Medicine | CA | $326.7K | 1.9K | $171.85 |
| 10 | George Shahinian | Pulmonary Disease | CA | $303.2K | 1.7K | $176.30 |
| 11 | Ashok Mittal | Pulmonary Disease | FL | $295.9K | 1.7K | $173.47 |
| 12 | Rosy Joseph | Nephrology | NJ | $286.6K | 1.7K | $172.16 |
| 13 | Tuan Nguyen | Cardiology | CA | $278.1K | 1.6K | $176.55 |
| 14 | Bijan Moradi | Internal Medicine | FL | $278.0K | 1.6K | $173.76 |
| 15 | Richard Tran | Internal Medicine | CA | $273.8K | 1.6K | $174.29 |
| 16 | Anthony Saleh | Pulmonary Disease | NY | $263.5K | 1.3K | $195.88 |
| 17 | Jeffry Jones | Internal Medicine | CA | $257.4K | 1.5K | $175.45 |
| 18 | Rajiv Philip | Pulmonary Disease | CA | $256.8K | 1.5K | $176.61 |
| 19 | Reza Tehrani | Internal Medicine | MI | $248.4K | 1.5K | $164.26 |
| 20 | Frida Popilevsky | Pulmonary Disease | NY | $247.0K | 1.3K | $195.72 |
| 21 | David Kamrava | Pulmonary Disease | CA | $245.6K | 1.4K | $176.59 |
| 22 | Steven Badin | Critical Care (Intensivists) | NY | $240.2K | 1.2K | $196.71 |
| 23 | Ruben Penaranda | Pulmonary Disease | FL | $239.3K | 1.3K | $188.43 |
| 24 | Rakesh Gupta | Pulmonary Disease | CA | $235.9K | 1.4K | $172.05 |
| 25 | Rodney Ranaei | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | CA | $235.1K | 1.3K | $176.77 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $134.5M | 761.9K | 7.2K | $18.6K |
| FL | $74.9M | 436.4K | 4.8K | $15.7K |
| NY | $71.0M | 381.0K | 4.7K | $15.2K |
| TX | $64.4M | 392.0K | 4.7K | $13.6K |
| PA | $44.5M | 264.0K | 3.8K | $11.7K |
| IL | $39.4M | 226.1K | 2.9K | $13.4K |
| OH | $32.1M | 195.4K | 3.1K | $10.4K |
| NJ | $31.6M | 176.6K | 2.0K | $16.1K |
| MA | $27.6M | 159.0K | 2.1K | $12.8K |
| MI | $27.3M | 161.9K | 2.7K | $10.0K |
| MD | $25.2M | 142.7K | 1.6K | $15.6K |
| NC | $24.5M | 152.8K | 2.6K | $9.3K |
| VA | $23.8M | 142.6K | 1.9K | $12.2K |
| GA | $22.9M | 141.4K | 2.2K | $10.3K |
| MO | $16.8M | 103.8K | 1.5K | $11.3K |
| AZ | $15.7M | 95.2K | 1.2K | $12.9K |
| TN | $15.1M | 97.1K | 1.6K | $9.7K |
| IN | $14.3M | 90.5K | 1.4K | $10.3K |
| WA | $13.1M | 77.6K | 1.4K | $9.1K |
| KY | $12.7M | 78.6K | 1.0K | $12.3K |
| CO | $12.0M | 72.0K | 1.2K | $9.8K |
| CT | $12.0M | 68.5K | 1.1K | $10.6K |
| SC | $11.5M | 72.2K | 1.2K | $9.9K |
| LA | $11.0M | 66.4K | 1.0K | $10.7K |
| WI | $10.0M | 63.4K | 1.2K | $8.5K |
| AL | $9.7M | 61.3K | 913 | $10.6K |
| OK | $9.1M | 57.4K | 777 | $11.8K |
| MN | $8.6M | 53.0K | 1.1K | $7.5K |
| NV | $8.4M | 50.1K | 592 | $14.1K |
| AR | $8.4M | 53.4K | 608 | $13.8K |
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.