$492.5M in total Medicare payments across 4 years
Procedure 99443 (Telephone medical discussion with physician, 21-30 minutes) received $492.5M in total Medicare payments.
Across 6.2M services, the average Medicare payment was $79.51 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $207.2M | 2.8M | — |
| 2021 | $138.1M | 1.7M | -33.4% |
| 2022 | $88.1M | 1.1M | -36.2% |
| 2023 | $59.1M | 703.5K | -33.0% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Archis Desai | Internal Medicine | CA | $480.5K | 4.7K | $102.50 |
| 2 | George Scherer | Internal Medicine | FL | $237.4K | 2.7K | $88.90 |
| 3 | Martin Perlin | Internal Medicine | NY | $195.3K | 1.8K | $108.70 |
| 4 | Ajay Patel | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | CA | $190.2K | 1.9K | $98.92 |
| 5 | Timothy Mark | Internal Medicine | FL | $184.6K | 2.2K | $85.52 |
| 6 | Glenn Gandelman | Cardiology | CT | $183.9K | 1.7K | $107.68 |
| 7 | Manjula Thopcherla | Internal Medicine | NJ | $168.2K | 1.6K | $105.05 |
| 8 | Ahra Cho | Internal Medicine | CA | $158.7K | 1.4K | $109.90 |
| 9 | Marc Knudsen | Emergency Medicine | OK | $155.0K | 2.3K | $68.42 |
| 10 | Kyle Washington | Nurse Practitioner | NY | $152.2K | 1.9K | $79.35 |
| 11 | Clifford Baker | Interventional Pain Management | AZ | $149.1K | 1.9K | $79.22 |
| 12 | Afshine Emrani | Cardiology | CA | $141.3K | 1.3K | $106.93 |
| 13 | Norman Chien | Geriatric Medicine | CA | $132.5K | 1.7K | $79.19 |
| 14 | Aniwelyn Tan | Nurse Practitioner | TX | $128.3K | 1.6K | $78.00 |
| 15 | Pa Heu | Family Practice | CA | $121.7K | 1.3K | $93.34 |
| 16 | Tigalat Shalita | Family Practice | CA | $117.5K | 1.1K | $102.74 |
| 17 | Donna Casey | Internal Medicine | TX | $117.1K | 1.1K | $107.96 |
| 18 | Bernard Rimler | Internal Medicine | NY | $115.4K | 1.0K | $114.64 |
| 19 | Sarabjeet Singh | Cardiology | CA | $113.7K | 1.2K | $91.08 |
| 20 | Matthew Lefferman | Internal Medicine | CA | $110.2K | 1.2K | $95.37 |
| 21 | Kanagaratnam Sivalingam | Internal Medicine | CA | $108.4K | 1.1K | $97.06 |
| 22 | Marc Makhani | Internal Medicine | CA | $107.9K | 980 | $110.15 |
| 23 | Natalie Paul | Nurse Practitioner | NY | $104.5K | 1.1K | $91.68 |
| 24 | Hetal Bhakta | Cardiology | CA | $103.1K | 1.0K | $101.56 |
| 25 | Stephen Haynes | General Surgery | NM | $99.4K | 1.2K | $84.20 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $15.7M | 176.6K | 2.7K | $5.8K |
| MA | $7.4M | 89.1K | 2.0K | $3.8K |
| NY | $6.8M | 73.0K | 1.2K | $5.7K |
| TX | $3.1M | 39.1K | 742 | $4.2K |
| IL | $3.1M | 36.0K | 939 | $3.3K |
| FL | $3.0M | 35.5K | 620 | $4.9K |
| NJ | $2.1M | 22.9K | 387 | $5.5K |
| MD | $1.4M | 16.7K | 319 | $4.4K |
| AZ | $1.3M | 17.6K | 382 | $3.5K |
| MI | $1.2M | 16.9K | 464 | $2.7K |
| PA | $1.2M | 14.8K | 383 | $3.0K |
| WA | $877.7K | 11.0K | 314 | $2.8K |
| VA | $842.5K | 10.4K | 251 | $3.4K |
| OH | $836.0K | 11.7K | 379 | $2.2K |
| CT | $827.5K | 9.1K | 185 | $4.5K |
| IN | $667.5K | 9.0K | 147 | $4.5K |
| NC | $645.7K | 8.3K | 248 | $2.6K |
| MN | $623.1K | 7.8K | 315 | $2.0K |
| GA | $520.7K | 6.5K | 142 | $3.7K |
| OK | $481.7K | 6.3K | 75 | $6.4K |
| WI | $467.3K | 6.2K | 181 | $2.6K |
| OR | $448.9K | 6.4K | 213 | $2.1K |
| TN | $437.6K | 5.8K | 115 | $3.8K |
| NH | $410.9K | 5.8K | 193 | $2.1K |
| RI | $389.5K | 4.6K | 110 | $3.5K |
| NV | $378.8K | 5.0K | 78 | $4.9K |
| NM | $369.4K | 4.8K | 78 | $4.7K |
| CO | $319.0K | 4.0K | 124 | $2.6K |
| AL | $302.3K | 4.4K | 103 | $2.9K |
| DC | $294.8K | 3.0K | 64 | $4.6K |
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.