$4.7B in total Medicare payments across 8 years
Procedure J9271 (Injection, pembrolizumab, 1 mg) received $4.7B in total Medicare payments.
Across 114.8M services, the average Medicare payment was $40.53 per service.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $10.8M | 307.8K | — |
| 2017 | $53.1M | 1.5M | +393.2% |
| 2018 | $241.0M | 6.5M | +353.8% |
| 2019 | $520.2M | 13.7M | +115.8% |
| 2020 | $753.2M | 19.2M | +44.8% |
| 2021 | $874.0M | 21.4M | +16.0% |
| 2022 | $1.0B | 25.2M | +19.8% |
| 2023 | $1.2B | 27.1M | +10.2% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Buroker | Medical Oncology | IA | $3.9M | 92.4K | $41.83 |
| 2 | Luke Dreisbach | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $3.7M | 84.5K | $43.26 |
| 3 | Syed Zafar | Hematology-Oncology | FL | $3.1M | 71.2K | $43.18 |
| 4 | Robert Behrens | Medical Oncology | IA | $3.0M | 70.4K | $42.28 |
| 5 | Justin Kucinski | Hematology-Oncology | MD | $3.0M | 68.8K | $42.89 |
| 6 | James Uyeki | Medical Oncology | TX | $2.9M | 67.7K | $43.22 |
| 7 | Jamal Misleh | Hematology-Oncology | DE | $2.8M | 66.0K | $43.07 |
| 8 | Mei Tang | Hematology-Oncology | MD | $2.7M | 67.6K | $39.58 |
| 9 | John Waples | Hematology-Oncology | AL | $2.5M | 56.8K | $43.20 |
| 10 | Mark Fleming | Hematology-Oncology | VA | $2.4M | 56.4K | $42.42 |
| 11 | Guangzhi Qu | Hematology-Oncology | MS | $2.4M | 55.8K | $42.62 |
| 12 | Julia Schaefer-Cutillo | Hematology-Oncology | NC | $2.3M | 55.0K | $42.50 |
| 13 | Brian Murphy | Hematology-Oncology | OH | $2.3M | 53.0K | $43.23 |
| 14 | David Smith | Hematology-Oncology | MD | $2.3M | 52.8K | $43.16 |
| 15 | Justin Baker | Hematology-Oncology | MS | $2.2M | 56.0K | $39.74 |
| 16 | Vinh-Linh Nguyen | Hematology-Oncology | CA | $2.2M | 50.8K | $43.33 |
| 17 | Steven Newman | Internal Medicine | FL | $2.2M | 50.8K | $43.18 |
| 18 | Heather Brody | Hematology-Oncology | AL | $2.1M | 49.0K | $43.28 |
| 19 | Andrew Lipman | Hematology-Oncology | FL | $2.0M | 47.0K | $42.69 |
| 20 | Vikas Malhotra | Hematology-Oncology | FL | $1.9M | 44.6K | $43.15 |
| 21 | Balagopalan Nair | Hematology-Oncology | AR | $1.9M | 43.4K | $43.31 |
| 22 | David Portnoy | Hematology-Oncology | TN | $1.8M | 42.8K | $43.22 |
| 23 | Arvind Chaudhry | Hematology-Oncology | WA | $1.8M | 44.0K | $42.00 |
| 24 | Mark Rubin | Hematology-Oncology | FL | $1.8M | 41.4K | $43.20 |
| 25 | Travis Koeneke | Hematology-Oncology | KS | $1.8M | 40.6K | $43.26 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $167.0M | 3.9M | 208 | $802.7K |
| TX | $119.3M | 2.8M | 231 | $516.5K |
| CA | $88.2M | 2.1M | 135 | $653.5K |
| VA | $67.8M | 1.6M | 111 | $610.9K |
| IL | $60.4M | 1.4M | 107 | $564.2K |
| MD | $49.6M | 1.2M | 63 | $787.6K |
| AZ | $38.5M | 900.3K | 79 | $487.4K |
| TN | $38.0M | 882.9K | 49 | $776.1K |
| AR | $35.9M | 835.9K | 40 | $896.3K |
| NY | $32.4M | 750.8K | 64 | $505.5K |
| GA | $29.2M | 693.6K | 38 | $767.3K |
| AL | $28.1M | 666.2K | 34 | $827.2K |
| NJ | $26.7M | 622.7K | 46 | $580.7K |
| SC | $25.0M | 588.5K | 30 | $832.0K |
| IA | $24.4M | 571.1K | 27 | $902.3K |
| PA | $24.2M | 572.8K | 40 | $604.4K |
| OH | $24.1M | 573.8K | 40 | $603.0K |
| MN | $22.3M | 543.0K | 69 | $323.3K |
| MO | $22.1M | 515.2K | 44 | $502.0K |
| KS | $22.0M | 509.4K | 20 | $1.1M |
| NV | $21.9M | 512.1K | 35 | $625.8K |
| CO | $18.7M | 434.5K | 36 | $520.5K |
| NE | $18.1M | 420.0K | 27 | $671.6K |
| WA | $15.4M | 367.2K | 33 | $465.7K |
| IN | $14.5M | 338.0K | 23 | $631.7K |
| NC | $14.3M | 333.8K | 27 | $528.3K |
| MI | $13.7M | 324.3K | 29 | $473.6K |
| OR | $12.1M | 281.9K | 28 | $430.9K |
| MS | $12.1M | 288.0K | 12 | $1.0M |
| DE | $9.9M | 230.0K | 10 | $992.4K |
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.