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Internal Medicine

Medicare spending analysis for Internal Medicine providers

🔎 Data Analysis

Internal Medicine accounts for $77.0B in Medicare payments across 917.6K providers.

The specialty's average markup of 2.9x is below the overall Medicare average of 3.77x.

AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.

⚠️

263 AI-Flagged Internal Medicine Providers

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

Ramesh ThimmiahWV
95.9%
Willie LucasMS
95.5%
John DacontiNJ
94.9%
View all ML-flagged providers →
Total Payments (10yr)
$77.0B
Top Providers
50
States with Providers
59

Spending Trends (2014-2023)

Year-over-Year Breakdown

YearPaymentsServicesProvidersYoY Change
2014$8.6B188.2M95.2K—
2015$8.9B195.2M96.6K+3.2%
2016$8.7B194.3M98.1K-2.1%
2017$8.2B183.8M94.9K-5.1%
2018$7.7B174.1M90.5K-6.1%
2019$7.6B171.6M89.8K-1.5%
2020$6.6B146.1M87.7K-12.7%
2021$7.1B146.5M87.9K+7.6%
2022$6.7B137.4M88.1K-6.0%
2023$6.9B136.6M88.7K+2.0%

Top Internal Medicine Providers

#ProviderStatePaymentsServicesAvg/Service
1Aaron JengCA$43.2M49.8K$867.71
2Richard ParkCA$31.7M75.1K$422.29
3Gautam BhaktaCA$19.0M27.7K$687.27
4Ravindra GautamCA$13.0M21.3K$611.56
5Owen EllingtonTX$11.5M18.2K$631.48
6Shahid JaveryCO$11.4M26.2K$433.83
7Patrick AnastasioFL$10.3M1.2M$8.71
8Hooman SaberiniaCA$9.6M814.0K$11.76
9Steven NewmanFL$5.7M482.7K$11.81
10Tatiana SharahyNJ$5.7M471.0K$12.02
11Samuel GanzFL$5.3M316.0K$16.76
12George CamachoFL$5.3M435.5K$12.11
13Tao HoTX$4.3M70.6K$60.17
14Sona KamatMO$4.1M219.4K$18.80
15Qais AyoubyCA$4.0M10.1K$396.22
16Amer HomsiUT$3.9M54.0K$71.81
17Vasimahmed LalaMI$3.7M10.3K$360.04
18Kashif AliMD$3.6M462.2K$7.79
19Lourdes AponteDE$3.6M330.0K$10.82
20Amardeep AulakhCA$3.5M388.5K$9.05
21Mark MazzareTX$3.4M289.3K$11.82
22Edward McclayCA$3.4M163.5K$20.64
23Jeffrey AlperFL$3.3M355.9K$9.27
24Jeffrey BahrWI$3.1M269.2K$11.52
25Shawn DhillonMD$3.1M4.9K$628.32

Top Procedures

CodeDescriptionPaymentsServicesAvg/Service
99214Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes$1.2B15.0M$82.78
99233Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes$644.3M6.8M$94.45
99232Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes$591.0M9.5M$62.44
G0439Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit$486.0M4.0M$122.16
99213Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes$444.8M7.4M$60.09
99223Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes$360.2M2.7M$134.79
99239Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes$218.7M2.4M$89.91
99215Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes$198.3M1.6M$120.33
99309Subsequent nursing facility care with moderate level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 30 minutes$181.5M2.2M$84.31
99308Subsequent nursing facility care with straightforward level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 15 minutes$129.8M2.2M$60.23
99222Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making, if using time, at least 55 minutes$99.1M978.6K$101.32
99291Critical care, first 30-74 minutes$96.1M566.5K$169.70
90677Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, 20 valent (pcv20), for intramuscular use$91.9M330.9K$277.80
J0897Injection, denosumab, 1 mg$79.3M4.4M$18.11
99490Chronic care management services, first 20 minutes of clinical staff time directed by health care professional, per calendar month$78.1M1.7M$46.25
99306Initial nursing facility care with high level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 45 minutes$64.1M441.8K$145.16
Q4236Carepatch, per square centimeter$62.3M64.2K$971.02
99204New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes$55.4M501.5K$110.55
90662Influenza vaccine split virus, preservative free$54.6M772.5K$70.69
99497Advance care planning, first 30 minutes$53.1M793.2K$66.92

Geographic Distribution

CA
$941.1M
9.2K providers
FL
$640.5M
6.3K providers
NY
$614.2M
7.6K providers
TX
$486.1M
5.8K providers
NJ
$351.0M
3.5K providers
IL
$304.7M
3.7K providers
PA
$249.4M
4.2K providers
MA
$232.1M
3.9K providers
MD
$220.1M
2.2K providers
GA
$196.0M
2.5K providers
MI
$195.6M
3.4K providers
OH
$182.2M
3.4K providers
NC
$181.1M
2.4K providers
VA
$173.6M
1.9K providers
AZ
$152.3M
1.8K providers
TN
$141.2M
1.9K providers
SC
$109.8M
1.2K providers
MO
$102.7M
1.5K providers
IN
$98.4M
1.4K providers
AL
$93.4M
1.2K providers
WA
$85.0M
1.6K providers
LA
$84.7M
1.3K providers
CT
$82.3M
1.6K providers
KY
$72.7M
990 providers
MN
$70.9M
1.7K providers
NV
$69.6M
765 providers
CO
$68.2M
1.1K providers
MS
$65.3M
577 providers
WI
$62.1M
1.2K providers
AR
$56.6M
574 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.