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Family Practice

Medicare spending analysis for Family Practice providers

🔎 Data Analysis

Family Practice accounts for $44.3B in Medicare payments across 804.1K providers.

The specialty's average markup of 2.8x is below the overall Medicare average of 3.77x.

AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.

⚠️

135 AI-Flagged Family Practice Providers

Providers in this specialty flagged by the ML v2 fraud detection model

Edd JonesGA
94.7%
Naiff AliMI
94.6%
Norman HaywoodNY
94.2%
View all ML-flagged providers →
Total Payments (10yr)
$44.3B
Top Providers
50
States with Providers
59

Spending Trends (2014-2023)

Year-over-Year Breakdown

YearPaymentsServicesProvidersYoY Change
2014$4.4B113.1M80.1K—
2015$4.7B124.3M80.9K+6.9%
2016$4.6B123.6M81.6K-1.2%
2017$4.6B122.5M81.8K-1.2%
2018$4.5B119.2M81.5K-1.6%
2019$4.5B116.4M81.4K+0.6%
2020$3.9B99.3M79.5K-13.2%
2021$4.6B103.4M80.0K+17.0%
2022$4.3B95.1M78.9K-7.1%
2023$4.4B93.3M78.5K+2.4%

Top Family Practice Providers

#ProviderStatePaymentsServicesAvg/Service
1Kirk MitchellCO$27.1M29.7K$913.02
2Samuel JurcaTX$24.0M26.6K$901.34
3Simon FensterszaubNY$14.8M916.0K$16.12
4Frank CurvinGA$10.6M15.5K$685.79
5Kacian BrownFL$9.4M18.7K$502.71
6Daniel GutsteinIL$9.3M12.5K$745.02
7Scott MartinMS$9.0M10.8K$833.48
8Violetta MailyanCA$8.8M1.6M$5.53
9Eugene WadeNC$7.2M275.0K$26.10
10Kristi HunterGA$6.4M281.9K$22.88
11Ali SaberiFL$5.7M8.3K$682.47
12Thomas DenmarkOK$5.3M4.8K$1.1K
13Rahul KhapekarIL$5.2M456.9K$11.39
14Joshua HollandAZ$5.1M7.0K$732.73
15Humberto VillalvazoCA$4.3M7.0K$608.03
16Vladimir UrbinIL$4.2M16.0K$262.23
17Seth CamhiCA$4.1M28.7K$143.92
18Annie CastaFL$4.1M345.8K$11.77
19Alexander FrankOK$4.0M14.0K$286.05
20Stephen ParksSC$3.9M205.6K$18.80
21Laura PurdyCA$3.7M283.7K$13.10
22Michael HafranMI$3.7M90.3K$40.70
23Steve TranFL$3.1M8.5K$365.67
24Maria OrtizCA$3.0M35.0K$85.53
25Martin SchnellFL$2.9M3.9K$759.76

Top Procedures

CodeDescriptionPaymentsServicesAvg/Service
99214Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes$1.2B15.3M$78.58
G0439Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit$474.4M4.0M$118.29
99213Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes$456.9M8.1M$56.69
99215Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes$121.7M1.0M$116.97
99232Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes$113.1M1.8M$61.41
90677Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, 20 valent (pcv20), for intramuscular use$102.8M370.5K$277.48
99233Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes$97.9M1.1M$93.13
99309Subsequent nursing facility care with moderate level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 30 minutes$92.1M1.1M$81.12
99223Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes$62.7M470.7K$133.11
99308Subsequent nursing facility care with straightforward level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 15 minutes$61.6M1.1M$56.71
90662Influenza vaccine split virus, preservative free$61.3M871.3K$70.35
99490Chronic care management services, first 20 minutes of clinical staff time directed by health care professional, per calendar month$59.1M1.3M$44.47
Q4262Dual layer impax membrane, per square centimeter$49.8M48.3K$1.0K
G0008Administration of influenza virus vaccine$46.0M1.6M$29.55
99204New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes$45.5M433.5K$104.99
J0897Injection, denosumab, 1 mg$44.0M2.4M$18.03
99239Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes$39.8M449.9K$88.54
36415Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample$39.3M4.9M$8.04
99497Advance care planning, first 30 minutes$35.0M514.5K$68.00
99285Emergency department visit with high level of medical decision making$33.2M247.0K$134.50

Geographic Distribution

CA
$455.9M
7.0K providers
FL
$409.8M
4.7K providers
TX
$350.3M
6.0K providers
NY
$217.5M
3.5K providers
PA
$212.9M
4.1K providers
IL
$184.4M
3.0K providers
VA
$154.5M
2.1K providers
GA
$141.1M
2.1K providers
NC
$141.0M
2.6K providers
SC
$124.2M
1.5K providers
OH
$121.7M
3.2K providers
NJ
$110.3M
1.7K providers
IN
$99.9M
2.0K providers
MI
$99.9M
3.0K providers
TN
$97.0M
1.5K providers
AZ
$94.6M
1.5K providers
OK
$83.2M
1.2K providers
CO
$80.7M
1.4K providers
AL
$76.1M
1.2K providers
AR
$73.3M
1.1K providers
WA
$71.9M
2.3K providers
MD
$70.2M
936 providers
WI
$64.3M
2.0K providers
MS
$64.2M
629 providers
IA
$62.4M
1.1K providers
MA
$61.5M
1.2K providers
LA
$60.9M
1.1K providers
MO
$60.3M
1.4K providers
MN
$59.3M
2.2K providers
KY
$54.2M
1.1K providers

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Data Sources

  • • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • • Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data (2014-2023)
  • • CMS National Health Expenditure Data

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.