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J2778

Injection, ranibizumab, 0.1 mg

$7.8B in total Medicare payments across 10 years

🔎 Data Analysis

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.

Spending Trends (2014-2023)

Year-over-Year Breakdown

YearPaymentsServicesYoY Change
2014$1.0B3.2M—
2015$859.2M2.8M-14.4%
2016$777.6M2.6M-9.5%
2017$777.7M2.6M+0.0%
2018$920.6M3.1M+18.4%
2019$961.1M3.4M+4.4%
2020$846.0M3.2M-12.0%
2021$797.3M3.2M-5.8%
2022$597.5M2.7M-25.1%
2023$281.8M1.6M-52.8%

Top Providers for J2778

#ProviderSpecialtyStatePaymentsServicesAvg/Service
1Wright LautenOphthalmologyMS$9.4M52.6K$178.38
2Gregory KozielecOphthalmologyTX$3.2M17.8K$178.59
3Harshivinderjit BainsOphthalmologyTX$2.4M13.6K$176.75
4John MyersOphthalmologyFL$2.3M12.8K$180.83
5Amar PatelOphthalmologyTX$2.2M12.5K$178.49
6Maurice SyrquinOphthalmologyTX$2.2M12.3K$178.74
7Omesh GuptaOphthalmologyPA$2.1M11.3K$187.96
8Arghavan AlmonyOphthalmologyNC$2.1M11.5K$179.82
9Marcus AllenOphthalmologyTX$2.0M11.1K$178.39
10Richard KaiserOphthalmologyPA$1.9M10.0K$189.09
11Alexander EatonOphthalmologyFL$1.7M9.1K$184.74
12Sunil GuptaOphthalmologyFL$1.6M8.8K$180.01
13Stephen WilesOphthalmologyMO$1.6M8.7K$180.53
14Scott WitherspoonOphthalmologyTX$1.5M8.2K$178.37
15Mitchell FinemanOphthalmologyPA$1.4M7.6K$189.53
16Marc SpirnOphthalmologyPA$1.3M7.0K$189.40
17Sunir GargOphthalmologyPA$1.3M6.9K$189.33
18James VanderOphthalmologyPA$1.3M6.8K$189.12
19Tanuj BankerOphthalmologyFL$1.3M6.9K$186.22
20Ailee LahamOphthalmologyTN$1.3M7.2K$178.79
21Arunan SivalingamOphthalmologyPA$1.2M6.6K$188.90
22Sohail HasanOphthalmologyIL$1.2M6.8K$182.01
23Nicholas MarchaseOphthalmologySC$1.2M6.7K$182.34
24Yoshihiro YonekawaOphthalmologyPA$1.2M6.3K$189.84
25Brian JewartOphthalmologyPA$1.2M6.6K$179.55

Spending by State

StatePaymentsServicesProvidersAvg/Provider
PA$29.2M157.1K70$417.1K
TX$29.0M161.5K84$345.3K
FL$25.7M142.0K110$234.1K
CA$25.1M138.7K128$196.0K
TN$15.5M86.7K42$370.2K
MS$11.4M63.9K9$1.3M
MI$11.3M62.6K47$240.5K
MD$11.0M60.6K53$207.8K
NJ$10.1M55.1K42$240.8K
SC$9.4M52.3K28$337.4K
NY$9.3M51.5K71$131.6K
NC$9.3M51.5K46$202.2K
GA$7.7M43.3K27$286.2K
VA$6.0M33.0K35$171.5K
MA$5.8M32.1K29$200.7K
KS$5.7M31.4K19$297.6K
AZ$5.5M30.5K28$198.0K
IL$4.9M27.6K23$214.9K
IA$4.9M27.4K19$259.9K
MO$4.7M25.9K23$203.8K
CO$4.2M23.3K21$199.7K
WA$3.2M17.5K27$117.1K
NM$2.7M15.1K11$247.3K
UT$2.5M13.6K11$224.3K
KY$2.4M13.1K16$148.3K
MN$2.3M12.5K19$121.0K
ID$2.1M11.9K6$352.5K
LA$2.1M11.9K10$208.9K
IN$2.0M10.9K13$150.0K
CT$1.8M9.8K15$117.8K

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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.