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99291

Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes

$9.6B in total Medicare payments across 10 years

🔎 Data Analysis

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.

Spending Trends (2014-2023)

Year-over-Year Breakdown

YearPaymentsServicesYoY Change
2014$882.2M5.0M—
2015$894.1M5.0M+1.3%
2016$911.8M5.2M+2.0%
2017$955.0M5.4M+4.7%
2018$961.9M5.5M+0.7%
2019$992.9M5.6M+3.2%
2020$1.1B6.0M+10.5%
2021$1.1B5.8M-3.2%
2022$962.8M5.4M-9.4%
2023$902.8M5.3M-6.2%

Top Providers for 99291

#ProviderSpecialtyStatePaymentsServicesAvg/Service
1Abdulkareem SharafCardiologyCA$725.1K4.1K$176.63
2Pankaj ShahInternal MedicineTX$379.0K2.3K$163.03
3Alaa AfifiCardiac SurgeryCA$375.1K2.1K$176.60
4Zahra TabassianInternal MedicineCA$369.6K2.1K$176.75
5Farid GheblehPulmonary DiseaseAZ$347.0K2.1K$164.40
6Omer DeenInternal MedicineCA$341.9K2.0K$175.05
7Vipin GargCritical Care (Intensivists)NJ$332.8K1.8K$180.57
8Muhammad RazaCritical Care (Intensivists)AZ$330.5K2.0K$163.62
9Mehmet DemirozuInternal MedicineCA$326.7K1.9K$171.85
10George ShahinianPulmonary DiseaseCA$303.2K1.7K$176.30
11Ashok MittalPulmonary DiseaseFL$295.9K1.7K$173.47
12Rosy JosephNephrologyNJ$286.6K1.7K$172.16
13Tuan NguyenCardiologyCA$278.1K1.6K$176.55
14Bijan MoradiInternal MedicineFL$278.0K1.6K$173.76
15Richard TranInternal MedicineCA$273.8K1.6K$174.29
16Anthony SalehPulmonary DiseaseNY$263.5K1.3K$195.88
17Jeffry JonesInternal MedicineCA$257.4K1.5K$175.45
18Rajiv PhilipPulmonary DiseaseCA$256.8K1.5K$176.61
19Reza TehraniInternal MedicineMI$248.4K1.5K$164.26
20Frida PopilevskyPulmonary DiseaseNY$247.0K1.3K$195.72
21David KamravaPulmonary DiseaseCA$245.6K1.4K$176.59
22Steven BadinCritical Care (Intensivists)NY$240.2K1.2K$196.71
23Ruben PenarandaPulmonary DiseaseFL$239.3K1.3K$188.43
24Rakesh GuptaPulmonary DiseaseCA$235.9K1.4K$172.05
25Rodney RanaeiClinical Cardiac ElectrophysiologyCA$235.1K1.3K$176.77

Spending by State

StatePaymentsServicesProvidersAvg/Provider
CA$134.5M761.9K7.2K$18.6K
FL$74.9M436.4K4.8K$15.7K
NY$71.0M381.0K4.7K$15.2K
TX$64.4M392.0K4.7K$13.6K
PA$44.5M264.0K3.8K$11.7K
IL$39.4M226.1K2.9K$13.4K
OH$32.1M195.4K3.1K$10.4K
NJ$31.6M176.6K2.0K$16.1K
MA$27.6M159.0K2.1K$12.8K
MI$27.3M161.9K2.7K$10.0K
MD$25.2M142.7K1.6K$15.6K
NC$24.5M152.8K2.6K$9.3K
VA$23.8M142.6K1.9K$12.2K
GA$22.9M141.4K2.2K$10.3K
MO$16.8M103.8K1.5K$11.3K
AZ$15.7M95.2K1.2K$12.9K
TN$15.1M97.1K1.6K$9.7K
IN$14.3M90.5K1.4K$10.3K
WA$13.1M77.6K1.4K$9.1K
KY$12.7M78.6K1.0K$12.3K
CO$12.0M72.0K1.2K$9.8K
CT$12.0M68.5K1.1K$10.6K
SC$11.5M72.2K1.2K$9.9K
LA$11.0M66.4K1.0K$10.7K
WI$10.0M63.4K1.2K$8.5K
AL$9.7M61.3K913$10.6K
OK$9.1M57.4K777$11.8K
MN$8.6M53.0K1.1K$7.5K
NV$8.4M50.1K592$14.1K
AR$8.4M53.4K608$13.8K

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Data Sources

  • • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • • Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data (2014-2023)
  • • CMS National Health Expenditure Data

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.