$230.6M in total Medicare payments across 8 years
Procedure J7999 (Compounded drug, not otherwise classified) received $230.6M in total Medicare payments.
Across 2.7M services, the average Medicare payment was $84.56 per service.
There is significant variance in per-service payments among top providers, with a 58x spread between highest and lowest average payments.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $22.6M | 377.9K | — |
| 2017 | $20.4M | 295.5K | -9.5% |
| 2018 | $23.1M | 306.8K | +12.9% |
| 2019 | $27.9M | 311.7K | +20.9% |
| 2020 | $35.4M | 352.9K | +27.0% |
| 2021 | $37.7M | 383.1K | +6.3% |
| 2022 | $33.5M | 365.3K | -11.1% |
| 2023 | $30.0M | 333.6K | -10.4% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muhammad Alghannam | Anesthesiology | CA | $2.3M | 599 | $3.8K |
| 2 | Pentec Health Inc | Pharmacy | PA | $2.2M | 9.9K | $224.05 |
| 3 | Dale Kiker | Anesthesiology | CA | $1.0M | 367 | $2.8K |
| 4 | Bond Pharmacy Inc | Pharmacy | MS | $632.5K | 2.4K | $263.21 |
| 5 | Mehran Taban | Ophthalmology | CA | $295.8K | 4.0K | $73.43 |
| 6 | Shann Lin | Ophthalmology | PA | $211.4K | 3.2K | $65.75 |
| 7 | Nathan Miller | Pain Management | CA | $205.8K | 307 | $670.33 |
| 8 | Shawn Agee | Ophthalmology | FL | $203.9K | 3.1K | $65.78 |
| 9 | Peter Schultz | Internal Medicine | MN | $172.1K | 667 | $258.01 |
| 10 | John Sullivan | Ophthalmology | FL | $168.2K | 2.6K | $65.85 |
| 11 | Stephen Desouza | Ophthalmology | AZ | $167.9K | 2.3K | $73.20 |
| 12 | Mikhail Ivanovsky | Pain Management | AR | $161.6K | 160 | $1.0K |
| 13 | Paul Carnes | Pain Management | NC | $158.6K | 44 | $3.6K |
| 14 | Evelyn Fu | Ophthalmology | WA | $140.5K | 1.9K | $73.27 |
| 15 | Ravi Panjabi | Anesthesiology | CA | $128.3K | 129 | $994.87 |
| 16 | Benjamin Bakall | Ophthalmology | AZ | $126.4K | 1.7K | $73.41 |
| 17 | Russ Levitan | Anesthesiology | CA | $125.1K | 287 | $436.01 |
| 18 | Derek Kunimoto | Ophthalmology | AZ | $121.3K | 1.7K | $73.18 |
| 19 | Elizabeth Atchison | Ophthalmology | SD | $119.4K | 1.7K | $70.55 |
| 20 | Jonathan Harder | Ophthalmology | CO | $115.5K | 1.8K | $64.98 |
| 21 | Derek Kuhl | Ophthalmology | TX | $108.8K | 1.6K | $66.46 |
| 22 | Alan Gordon | Ophthalmology | AZ | $108.2K | 1.5K | $72.35 |
| 23 | Joel Corwin | Ophthalmology | CA | $107.6K | 1.5K | $73.11 |
| 24 | Kevin Wells | Ophthalmology | TX | $106.6K | 1.6K | $66.47 |
| 25 | David Parks | Ophthalmology | CA | $104.6K | 1.4K | $73.17 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $8.3M | 61.6K | 239 | $34.9K |
| PA | $3.6M | 30.0K | 108 | $33.3K |
| FL | $3.2M | 48.2K | 193 | $16.4K |
| AZ | $2.2M | 30.1K | 47 | $46.8K |
| TX | $2.0M | 26.2K | 140 | $14.4K |
| OR | $1.2M | 17.1K | 52 | $23.4K |
| WA | $1.1M | 14.8K | 67 | $15.9K |
| CO | $968.6K | 13.8K | 45 | $21.5K |
| MS | $839.3K | 5.5K | 13 | $64.6K |
| NJ | $762.1K | 11.0K | 54 | $14.1K |
| AR | $678.2K | 5.4K | 33 | $20.6K |
| MN | $508.6K | 2.4K | 24 | $21.2K |
| MT | $454.4K | 6.6K | 10 | $45.4K |
| SD | $430.5K | 6.1K | 11 | $39.1K |
| MD | $402.2K | 5.8K | 45 | $8.9K |
| LA | $380.7K | 10.0K | 23 | $16.6K |
| ID | $377.4K | 5.7K | 20 | $18.9K |
| UT | $355.2K | 5.0K | 21 | $16.9K |
| WI | $222.7K | 965 | 11 | $20.2K |
| OK | $218.0K | 3.2K | 15 | $14.5K |
| NM | $204.9K | 3.2K | 11 | $18.6K |
| NC | $193.3K | 501 | 10 | $19.3K |
| NY | $175.0K | 1.9K | 13 | $13.5K |
| HI | $166.2K | 2.3K | 13 | $12.8K |
| KS | $161.7K | 3.7K | 6 | $27.0K |
| MA | $136.2K | 913 | 5 | $27.2K |
| MO | $114.2K | 2.1K | 9 | $12.7K |
| OH | $96.6K | 1.3K | 8 | $12.1K |
| VA | $72.8K | 1.2K | 21 | $3.5K |
| MI | $68.7K | 408 | 6 | $11.4K |
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.