$851.5M in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure J0881 (Injection, darbepoetin alfa, 1 microgram (non-esrd use)) received $851.5M in total Medicare payments.
Across 293.3M services, the average Medicare payment was $2.90 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $117.8M | 40.8M | — |
| 2015 | $116.1M | 37.2M | -1.5% |
| 2016 | $111.8M | 35.4M | -3.7% |
| 2017 | $95.6M | 31.7M | -14.5% |
| 2018 | $87.4M | 29.4M | -8.6% |
| 2019 | $86.2M | 28.6M | -1.4% |
| 2020 | $75.2M | 25.5M | -12.7% |
| 2021 | $60.9M | 23.2M | -19.0% |
| 2022 | $54.1M | 21.5M | -11.2% |
| 2023 | $46.4M | 19.8M | -14.3% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Pascuzzo | Medical Oncology | CA | $454.5K | 192.7K | $2.36 |
| 2 | Sachin Gupta | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $327.6K | 139.1K | $2.36 |
| 3 | Ravi Rao | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $281.3K | 119.3K | $2.36 |
| 4 | Kashif Ali | Internal Medicine | MD | $279.6K | 119.2K | $2.35 |
| 5 | Marc Chernoff | Hematology-Oncology | PA | $247.0K | 105.1K | $2.35 |
| 6 | Sameer Gupta | Hematology-Oncology | PA | $228.4K | 95.9K | $2.38 |
| 7 | Abdul Haseeb | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $225.3K | 95.9K | $2.35 |
| 8 | Kashif Firozvi | Medical Oncology | MD | $217.3K | 92.8K | $2.34 |
| 9 | Leonard Hackett | Hematology | CA | $212.1K | 90.1K | $2.35 |
| 10 | Amardeep Aulakh | Internal Medicine | CA | $207.6K | 88.1K | $2.36 |
| 11 | Wasif Shirazi | Hematology-Oncology | IL | $206.5K | 87.4K | $2.36 |
| 12 | Steven Hager | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $196.1K | 83.2K | $2.36 |
| 13 | Burton Alexander | Hematology-Oncology | VA | $195.0K | 83.0K | $2.35 |
| 14 | Amita Saggi | Physician Assistant | CA | $194.9K | 82.6K | $2.36 |
| 15 | Jeffrey Ambinder | Hematology-Oncology | NY | $190.1K | 80.2K | $2.37 |
| 16 | Dexter Estrada | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $185.6K | 78.7K | $2.36 |
| 17 | Alberto Bessudo | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $184.7K | 78.4K | $2.36 |
| 18 | Michael Auerbach | Hematology-Oncology | MD | $183.5K | 78.1K | $2.35 |
| 19 | Kenneth Johnson | Hematology | CA | $181.5K | 77.1K | $2.35 |
| 20 | Michael Sherman | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $179.9K | 76.2K | $2.36 |
| 21 | Richard Huslig | Hematology-Oncology | MD | $177.9K | 75.2K | $2.37 |
| 22 | Jason Damsker | Hematology-Oncology | PA | $177.1K | 75.8K | $2.34 |
| 23 | Kai Zu | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $172.5K | 73.7K | $2.34 |
| 24 | Andrew Weber | Hematology-Oncology | FL | $165.4K | 69.9K | $2.37 |
| 25 | Marilyn Norton | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $160.2K | 68.1K | $2.35 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $6.5M | 2.8M | 81 | $80.6K |
| TX | $4.8M | 2.1M | 172 | $28.1K |
| MD | $4.7M | 2.0M | 62 | $76.4K |
| TN | $3.9M | 1.7M | 71 | $54.4K |
| NY | $3.4M | 1.4M | 83 | $41.0K |
| PA | $3.3M | 1.4M | 45 | $72.7K |
| IL | $2.6M | 1.1M | 69 | $38.2K |
| VA | $2.6M | 1.1M | 75 | $34.5K |
| FL | $1.6M | 676.5K | 49 | $32.4K |
| NV | $1.5M | 654.1K | 31 | $49.5K |
| AZ | $1.2M | 491.1K | 50 | $23.1K |
| NJ | $947.6K | 402.4K | 31 | $30.6K |
| MO | $820.9K | 349.1K | 13 | $63.1K |
| AL | $746.9K | 319.7K | 31 | $24.1K |
| IN | $663.3K | 284.1K | 14 | $47.4K |
| NE | $653.7K | 279.3K | 12 | $54.5K |
| GA | $631.3K | 270.0K | 17 | $37.1K |
| OH | $621.5K | 278.7K | 17 | $36.6K |
| OR | $612.2K | 259.1K | 17 | $36.0K |
| IA | $561.6K | 240.0K | 13 | $43.2K |
| WA | $534.7K | 231.2K | 27 | $19.8K |
| KS | $438.8K | 189.2K | 13 | $33.8K |
| MN | $407.0K | 172.9K | 16 | $25.4K |
| NC | $334.4K | 142.4K | 15 | $22.3K |
| ME | $328.9K | 138.9K | 7 | $47.0K |
| CO | $304.6K | 129.3K | 13 | $23.4K |
| SC | $296.0K | 125.9K | 7 | $42.3K |
| DE | $230.7K | 98.4K | 4 | $57.7K |
| MI | $176.5K | 75.7K | 12 | $14.7K |
| NM | $156.2K | 66.6K | 5 | $31.2K |
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.