$7.8B in total Medicare payments across 10 years
Procedure J2778 (Injection, ranibizumab, 0.1 mg) received $7.8B in total Medicare payments.
Across 28.4M services, the average Medicare payment was $275.01 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $1.0B | 3.2M | — |
| 2015 | $859.2M | 2.8M | -14.4% |
| 2016 | $777.6M | 2.6M | -9.5% |
| 2017 | $777.7M | 2.6M | +0.0% |
| 2018 | $920.6M | 3.1M | +18.4% |
| 2019 | $961.1M | 3.4M | +4.4% |
| 2020 | $846.0M | 3.2M | -12.0% |
| 2021 | $797.3M | 3.2M | -5.8% |
| 2022 | $597.5M | 2.7M | -25.1% |
| 2023 | $281.8M | 1.6M | -52.8% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wright Lauten | Ophthalmology | MS | $9.4M | 52.6K | $178.38 |
| 2 | Gregory Kozielec | Ophthalmology | TX | $3.2M | 17.8K | $178.59 |
| 3 | Harshivinderjit Bains | Ophthalmology | TX | $2.4M | 13.6K | $176.75 |
| 4 | John Myers | Ophthalmology | FL | $2.3M | 12.8K | $180.83 |
| 5 | Amar Patel | Ophthalmology | TX | $2.2M | 12.5K | $178.49 |
| 6 | Maurice Syrquin | Ophthalmology | TX | $2.2M | 12.3K | $178.74 |
| 7 | Omesh Gupta | Ophthalmology | PA | $2.1M | 11.3K | $187.96 |
| 8 | Arghavan Almony | Ophthalmology | NC | $2.1M | 11.5K | $179.82 |
| 9 | Marcus Allen | Ophthalmology | TX | $2.0M | 11.1K | $178.39 |
| 10 | Richard Kaiser | Ophthalmology | PA | $1.9M | 10.0K | $189.09 |
| 11 | Alexander Eaton | Ophthalmology | FL | $1.7M | 9.1K | $184.74 |
| 12 | Sunil Gupta | Ophthalmology | FL | $1.6M | 8.8K | $180.01 |
| 13 | Stephen Wiles | Ophthalmology | MO | $1.6M | 8.7K | $180.53 |
| 14 | Scott Witherspoon | Ophthalmology | TX | $1.5M | 8.2K | $178.37 |
| 15 | Mitchell Fineman | Ophthalmology | PA | $1.4M | 7.6K | $189.53 |
| 16 | Marc Spirn | Ophthalmology | PA | $1.3M | 7.0K | $189.40 |
| 17 | Sunir Garg | Ophthalmology | PA | $1.3M | 6.9K | $189.33 |
| 18 | James Vander | Ophthalmology | PA | $1.3M | 6.8K | $189.12 |
| 19 | Tanuj Banker | Ophthalmology | FL | $1.3M | 6.9K | $186.22 |
| 20 | Ailee Laham | Ophthalmology | TN | $1.3M | 7.2K | $178.79 |
| 21 | Arunan Sivalingam | Ophthalmology | PA | $1.2M | 6.6K | $188.90 |
| 22 | Sohail Hasan | Ophthalmology | IL | $1.2M | 6.8K | $182.01 |
| 23 | Nicholas Marchase | Ophthalmology | SC | $1.2M | 6.7K | $182.34 |
| 24 | Yoshihiro Yonekawa | Ophthalmology | PA | $1.2M | 6.3K | $189.84 |
| 25 | Brian Jewart | Ophthalmology | PA | $1.2M | 6.6K | $179.55 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA | $29.2M | 157.1K | 70 | $417.1K |
| TX | $29.0M | 161.5K | 84 | $345.3K |
| FL | $25.7M | 142.0K | 110 | $234.1K |
| CA | $25.1M | 138.7K | 128 | $196.0K |
| TN | $15.5M | 86.7K | 42 | $370.2K |
| MS | $11.4M | 63.9K | 9 | $1.3M |
| MI | $11.3M | 62.6K | 47 | $240.5K |
| MD | $11.0M | 60.6K | 53 | $207.8K |
| NJ | $10.1M | 55.1K | 42 | $240.8K |
| SC | $9.4M | 52.3K | 28 | $337.4K |
| NY | $9.3M | 51.5K | 71 | $131.6K |
| NC | $9.3M | 51.5K | 46 | $202.2K |
| GA | $7.7M | 43.3K | 27 | $286.2K |
| VA | $6.0M | 33.0K | 35 | $171.5K |
| MA | $5.8M | 32.1K | 29 | $200.7K |
| KS | $5.7M | 31.4K | 19 | $297.6K |
| AZ | $5.5M | 30.5K | 28 | $198.0K |
| IL | $4.9M | 27.6K | 23 | $214.9K |
| IA | $4.9M | 27.4K | 19 | $259.9K |
| MO | $4.7M | 25.9K | 23 | $203.8K |
| CO | $4.2M | 23.3K | 21 | $199.7K |
| WA | $3.2M | 17.5K | 27 | $117.1K |
| NM | $2.7M | 15.1K | 11 | $247.3K |
| UT | $2.5M | 13.6K | 11 | $224.3K |
| KY | $2.4M | 13.1K | 16 | $148.3K |
| MN | $2.3M | 12.5K | 19 | $121.0K |
| ID | $2.1M | 11.9K | 6 | $352.5K |
| LA | $2.1M | 11.9K | 10 | $208.9K |
| IN | $2.0M | 10.9K | 13 | $150.0K |
| CT | $1.8M | 9.8K | 15 | $117.8K |
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.