$19.7B in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure J0178 (Injection, aflibercept, 1 mg) received $19.7B in total Medicare payments.
Across 26.8M services, the average Medicare payment was $736.53 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $950.0M | 1.2M | — |
| 2015 | $1.3B | 1.7M | +40.5% |
| 2016 | $1.6B | 2.1M | +22.2% |
| 2017 | $1.8B | 2.4M | +11.6% |
| 2018 | $1.9B | 2.5M | +5.4% |
| 2019 | $2.2B | 2.9M | +13.6% |
| 2020 | $2.3B | 3.1M | +4.2% |
| 2021 | $2.6B | 3.5M | +14.4% |
| 2022 | $2.7B | 3.7M | +2.1% |
| 2023 | $2.4B | 3.4M | -11.3% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torsten Wiegand | Ophthalmology | MA | $5.4M | 7.9K | $689.74 |
| 2 | Sandeep Randhawa | Ophthalmology | MI | $5.4M | 7.9K | $688.31 |
| 3 | Drew Sommerville | Ophthalmology | IN | $5.4M | 7.8K | $686.33 |
| 4 | Gary Miller | Ophthalmology | WV | $5.2M | 7.6K | $690.32 |
| 5 | David Reed | Ophthalmology | MA | $5.1M | 7.4K | $692.48 |
| 6 | Eric Jablon | Ophthalmology | SC | $4.9M | 7.0K | $692.64 |
| 7 | Joel Herring | Ophthalmology | MS | $4.7M | 6.8K | $686.64 |
| 8 | Sunil Gupta | Ophthalmology | FL | $4.6M | 6.7K | $683.21 |
| 9 | James Brown | Ophthalmology | MS | $4.4M | 6.4K | $684.93 |
| 10 | Paul Boeke | Ophthalmology | IA | $4.4M | 6.3K | $688.63 |
| 11 | David Dyer | Ophthalmology | KS | $4.3M | 6.2K | $692.92 |
| 12 | Shil Patel | Ophthalmology | NC | $4.3M | 6.2K | $686.69 |
| 13 | James Pate | Ophthalmology | NC | $4.2M | 6.2K | $686.57 |
| 14 | Randall Peairs | Ophthalmology | PA | $4.1M | 5.9K | $691.89 |
| 15 | Shalini Yalamanchi | Ophthalmology | CA | $4.0M | 5.8K | $687.30 |
| 16 | Rohit Lakhanpal | Ophthalmology | MD | $4.0M | 5.8K | $686.70 |
| 17 | Jonathan Jonisch | Ophthalmology | NY | $3.9M | 5.7K | $690.51 |
| 18 | John O'keefe | Ophthalmology | VA | $3.9M | 5.6K | $691.51 |
| 19 | Roy Arogyasami | Ophthalmology | NY | $3.8M | 5.6K | $689.77 |
| 20 | Nitin Gupta | Ophthalmology | NC | $3.8M | 5.6K | $685.86 |
| 21 | Juan Astruc | Ophthalmology | VA | $3.8M | 5.4K | $690.39 |
| 22 | Sarju Patel | Ophthalmology | CA | $3.7M | 5.4K | $690.92 |
| 23 | Thomas Ward | Ophthalmology | FL | $3.6M | 5.3K | $688.37 |
| 24 | Daniel Feiler | Ophthalmology | KS | $3.5M | 5.1K | $688.13 |
| 25 | Scott Pendergast | Ophthalmology | OH | $3.5M | 5.1K | $691.16 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $204.4M | 296.8K | 250 | $817.6K |
| CA | $200.6M | 291.7K | 310 | $647.1K |
| NY | $159.4M | 231.7K | 230 | $693.0K |
| TX | $147.3M | 214.1K | 212 | $694.9K |
| PA | $121.1M | 176.0K | 140 | $865.1K |
| IL | $95.7M | 139.2K | 139 | $688.4K |
| VA | $87.1M | 126.7K | 76 | $1.1M |
| NC | $86.3M | 125.6K | 98 | $881.0K |
| MD | $86.1M | 125.3K | 97 | $887.3K |
| OH | $75.8M | 112.3K | 104 | $729.0K |
| MI | $71.2M | 103.8K | 113 | $630.2K |
| MA | $70.3M | 101.8K | 85 | $826.5K |
| NJ | $59.0M | 85.7K | 85 | $693.6K |
| TN | $57.7M | 84.4K | 75 | $769.8K |
| WA | $56.1M | 82.0K | 94 | $597.2K |
| IN | $53.0M | 77.1K | 61 | $868.8K |
| SC | $48.8M | 71.0K | 46 | $1.1M |
| GA | $46.2M | 67.6K | 66 | $700.6K |
| MO | $41.7M | 60.7K | 61 | $683.3K |
| OR | $38.0M | 55.6K | 61 | $623.7K |
| AZ | $37.5M | 54.3K | 51 | $734.8K |
| KS | $37.1M | 53.9K | 28 | $1.3M |
| KY | $36.1M | 52.4K | 42 | $858.5K |
| CO | $35.2M | 51.3K | 57 | $618.3K |
| MN | $32.7M | 47.4K | 44 | $743.4K |
| CT | $30.7M | 44.7K | 43 | $713.1K |
| IA | $30.4M | 44.2K | 40 | $760.2K |
| WI | $29.8M | 43.4K | 61 | $488.1K |
| AL | $29.0M | 42.2K | 41 | $706.2K |
| UT | $24.6M | 35.6K | 36 | $683.2K |
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.