$853.6M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure A9500 (Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose) received $853.6M in total Medicare payments.
Across 8.5M services, the average Medicare payment was $100.66 per service.
There is significant variance in per-service payments among top providers, with a 6x spread between highest and lowest average payments.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $107.5M | 1.0M | — |
| 2015 | $108.6M | 1.0M | +1.0% |
| 2016 | $105.3M | 1.0M | -3.1% |
| 2017 | $102.3M | 983.9K | -2.8% |
| 2018 | $88.0M | 921.9K | -14.0% |
| 2019 | $87.7M | 873.1K | -0.2% |
| 2020 | $69.1M | 688.2K | -21.2% |
| 2021 | $71.5M | 705.5K | +3.5% |
| 2022 | $60.0M | 633.6K | -16.1% |
| 2023 | $53.4M | 620.5K | -10.9% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milind Parikh | Cardiology | CA | $252.6K | 1.3K | $195.97 |
| 2 | Daniel Riegel | Cardiology | NY | $213.4K | 2.3K | $91.85 |
| 3 | Rodney Randall | Cardiology | FL | $184.4K | 2.1K | $87.88 |
| 4 | Georg Couturier | Cardiology | FL | $182.6K | 2.1K | $86.08 |
| 5 | Amy Eversole | Cardiology | FL | $141.6K | 1.6K | $89.81 |
| 6 | Yoichi Inaba | Diagnostic Radiology | GU | $138.2K | 742 | $186.32 |
| 7 | Charles Jost | Cardiology | AZ | $138.2K | 266 | $519.61 |
| 8 | Nareg Minaskeian | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | AZ | $133.6K | 261 | $511.78 |
| 9 | Muhammad Khan | Cardiology | KS | $132.3K | 1.2K | $114.04 |
| 10 | Haysam Akkad | Cardiology | NE | $130.8K | 884 | $147.99 |
| 11 | Richard Jacaruso | Cardiology | NY | $123.0K | 1.3K | $93.79 |
| 12 | Kandarp Patel | Cardiology | TN | $122.6K | 1.4K | $87.02 |
| 13 | Katherine Ludington | Cardiology | CA | $120.3K | 478 | $251.72 |
| 14 | David Lee | Cardiology | CA | $119.9K | 316 | $379.46 |
| 15 | Ahtisham Shakoor | Cardiology | AZ | $110.9K | 229 | $484.40 |
| 16 | Michael Levine | Cardiology | NY | $110.8K | 1.2K | $95.22 |
| 17 | Hormoz Kianfar | Cardiology | NY | $109.3K | 623 | $175.52 |
| 18 | B Chandramouli | Cardiology | CA | $106.1K | 1.1K | $95.26 |
| 19 | Hiren Patel | Cardiology | FL | $106.1K | 1.2K | $90.12 |
| 20 | Amit Nanavati | Cardiology | FL | $106.0K | 1.2K | $90.27 |
| 21 | Prasad Chalasani | Cardiology | FL | $105.9K | 1.2K | $88.10 |
| 22 | Mallory Hatfield | Cardiology | MA | $104.8K | 1.1K | $95.30 |
| 23 | Mehran Moussavian | Cardiology | CA | $104.0K | 698 | $149.04 |
| 24 | Jonathan Seckler | Cardiology | FL | $103.7K | 1.2K | $88.47 |
| 25 | Shahid Malik | Cardiology | FL | $100.2K | 1.1K | $88.04 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $10.8M | 123.4K | 627 | $17.3K |
| NY | $6.1M | 68.6K | 382 | $15.9K |
| CA | $5.9M | 79.2K | 433 | $13.7K |
| TX | $2.9M | 29.9K | 374 | $7.7K |
| NC | $2.3M | 27.6K | 201 | $11.5K |
| MI | $2.2M | 19.6K | 119 | $18.7K |
| AZ | $2.2M | 33.7K | 173 | $12.5K |
| SC | $2.1M | 24.1K | 112 | $18.7K |
| NJ | $1.9M | 17.2K | 198 | $9.6K |
| IL | $1.7M | 18.6K | 99 | $17.7K |
| VA | $1.5M | 16.2K | 95 | $15.3K |
| MD | $1.3M | 12.0K | 103 | $12.5K |
| MA | $1.2M | 13.4K | 80 | $15.2K |
| AL | $1.1M | 12.8K | 91 | $12.0K |
| GA | $802.2K | 9.4K | 60 | $13.4K |
| CT | $713.2K | 8.5K | 79 | $9.0K |
| PA | $687.6K | 5.7K | 88 | $7.8K |
| LA | $668.0K | 7.9K | 91 | $7.3K |
| IN | $648.5K | 5.8K | 38 | $17.1K |
| KS | $567.4K | 4.8K | 23 | $24.7K |
| TN | $562.6K | 6.6K | 36 | $15.6K |
| NV | $542.8K | 12.8K | 80 | $6.8K |
| MO | $511.3K | 4.6K | 46 | $11.1K |
| NE | $481.5K | 4.2K | 18 | $26.8K |
| IA | $475.1K | 4.6K | 33 | $14.4K |
| WV | $414.1K | 5.0K | 16 | $25.9K |
| OH | $403.5K | 11.1K | 74 | $5.5K |
| DE | $333.1K | 3.9K | 24 | $13.9K |
| WI | $282.0K | 3.6K | 33 | $8.5K |
| AR | $217.2K | 2.5K | 21 | $10.3K |
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.