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J0178

Injection, aflibercept, 1 mg

$19.7B in total Medicare payments across 10 years

🔎 Data Analysis

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.

Spending Trends (2014-2023)

Year-over-Year Breakdown

YearPaymentsServicesYoY Change
2014$950.0M1.2M—
2015$1.3B1.7M+40.5%
2016$1.6B2.1M+22.2%
2017$1.8B2.4M+11.6%
2018$1.9B2.5M+5.4%
2019$2.2B2.9M+13.6%
2020$2.3B3.1M+4.2%
2021$2.6B3.5M+14.4%
2022$2.7B3.7M+2.1%
2023$2.4B3.4M-11.3%

Top Providers for J0178

#ProviderSpecialtyStatePaymentsServicesAvg/Service
1Torsten WiegandOphthalmologyMA$5.4M7.9K$689.74
2Sandeep RandhawaOphthalmologyMI$5.4M7.9K$688.31
3Drew SommervilleOphthalmologyIN$5.4M7.8K$686.33
4Gary MillerOphthalmologyWV$5.2M7.6K$690.32
5David ReedOphthalmologyMA$5.1M7.4K$692.48
6Eric JablonOphthalmologySC$4.9M7.0K$692.64
7Joel HerringOphthalmologyMS$4.7M6.8K$686.64
8Sunil GuptaOphthalmologyFL$4.6M6.7K$683.21
9James BrownOphthalmologyMS$4.4M6.4K$684.93
10Paul BoekeOphthalmologyIA$4.4M6.3K$688.63
11David DyerOphthalmologyKS$4.3M6.2K$692.92
12Shil PatelOphthalmologyNC$4.3M6.2K$686.69
13James PateOphthalmologyNC$4.2M6.2K$686.57
14Randall PeairsOphthalmologyPA$4.1M5.9K$691.89
15Shalini YalamanchiOphthalmologyCA$4.0M5.8K$687.30
16Rohit LakhanpalOphthalmologyMD$4.0M5.8K$686.70
17Jonathan JonischOphthalmologyNY$3.9M5.7K$690.51
18John O'keefeOphthalmologyVA$3.9M5.6K$691.51
19Roy ArogyasamiOphthalmologyNY$3.8M5.6K$689.77
20Nitin GuptaOphthalmologyNC$3.8M5.6K$685.86
21Juan AstrucOphthalmologyVA$3.8M5.4K$690.39
22Sarju PatelOphthalmologyCA$3.7M5.4K$690.92
23Thomas WardOphthalmologyFL$3.6M5.3K$688.37
24Daniel FeilerOphthalmologyKS$3.5M5.1K$688.13
25Scott PendergastOphthalmologyOH$3.5M5.1K$691.16

Spending by State

StatePaymentsServicesProvidersAvg/Provider
FL$204.4M296.8K250$817.6K
CA$200.6M291.7K310$647.1K
NY$159.4M231.7K230$693.0K
TX$147.3M214.1K212$694.9K
PA$121.1M176.0K140$865.1K
IL$95.7M139.2K139$688.4K
VA$87.1M126.7K76$1.1M
NC$86.3M125.6K98$881.0K
MD$86.1M125.3K97$887.3K
OH$75.8M112.3K104$729.0K
MI$71.2M103.8K113$630.2K
MA$70.3M101.8K85$826.5K
NJ$59.0M85.7K85$693.6K
TN$57.7M84.4K75$769.8K
WA$56.1M82.0K94$597.2K
IN$53.0M77.1K61$868.8K
SC$48.8M71.0K46$1.1M
GA$46.2M67.6K66$700.6K
MO$41.7M60.7K61$683.3K
OR$38.0M55.6K61$623.7K
AZ$37.5M54.3K51$734.8K
KS$37.1M53.9K28$1.3M
KY$36.1M52.4K42$858.5K
CO$35.2M51.3K57$618.3K
MN$32.7M47.4K44$743.4K
CT$30.7M44.7K43$713.1K
IA$30.4M44.2K40$760.2K
WI$29.8M43.4K61$488.1K
AL$29.0M42.2K41$706.2K
UT$24.6M35.6K36$683.2K

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