	observed	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated	reported
2024	8,131	$40,035,029	-14%	798,991	23	138	0.00
2023	9,976	$46,700,410	+5% (2023 changed hospital and observation visit codes)	931,742	25	150	0.00
2022	14,278	$44,401,744	+8%	879,838	30	175	0.00
2021	13,151	$41,215,387	– (Not compared: 2021 changed office visit values)	806,032	30	183	0.00
2020	5,821	$21,084,711	first year in data	416,737	28	198

Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners public use files (Original Medicare Part B fee-for-service). Data years 2020–2024.

By state

	observed	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated
California	420	$3,063,866	62,164	31	324
New York	642	$1,960,251	38,461	33	180
Texas	460	$1,455,573	28,548	24	204
New Jersey	232	$1,379,227	27,188	38	448
Florida	234	$1,283,632	25,209	40	287
Louisiana	337	$925,641	18,123	38	155
Alabama	264	$895,992	17,600	49	148
Tennessee	249	$735,370	14,397	24	158
South Carolina	253	$633,656	12,411	32	110
Maryland	116	$531,608	10,479	49	219
North Carolina	230	$486,231	9,528	23	102
Georgia	134	$465,376	9,192	30	186
Oklahoma	108	$454,952	8,937	45	231
Massachusetts	97	$451,920	8,866	41	257
Illinois	74	$430,922	8,618	28	555

Not listed: 3 billers with an armed-forces or unknown state code (AE, XX); they are in the national totals.

Not listed: 9 states with fewer than 11 billers (small cells).

Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners public use files (Original Medicare Part B fee-for-service). Providers placed by practice address. Data year 2020.

Top metro areas

	observed	calculated	calculated	calculated
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	729	$2,848,657	56,037	36
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	171	$2,121,847	43,677	31
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	100	$537,385	10,525	49
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	47	$448,003	8,785	47
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	76	$383,396	7,528	50
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	74	$353,659	6,928	20
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	71	$337,847	6,635	22
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	57	$293,278	5,776	28
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	62	$292,723	5,783	39
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	55	$288,940	5,859	25
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	57	$255,467	5,021	32
Birmingham, AL	87	$250,140	4,908	46
Memphis, TN-MS-AR	85	$235,343	4,637	26
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	60	$224,991	4,452	48
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	52	$210,316	4,103	29

Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners public use files (Original Medicare Part B fee-for-service). The 81 areas with the most payment among those with at least 11 billers; non-metro parts of each state are one area. Data year 2020.

Specialties billing 87635 nationally

Clinical Laboratory accounts for 33% of payment for 87635 nationally in 2020, across 21 specialties on claims.

	observed	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated
Clinical Laboratory	362	6.2%	$6,916,806	33%	138,147	382
Nurse Practitioner	1,678	29%	$4,165,994	20%	81,617	49
Family Practice	1,237	21%	$3,011,459	14%	59,451	48
Physician Assistant	1,088	19%	$2,644,633	13%	51,651	47
Internal Medicine	645	11%	$1,459,468	6.9%	28,945	45
Emergency Medicine	283	4.9%	$907,473	4.3%	17,863	63
Pathology	25	0.43%	$343,274	1.6%	6,930	277
Gastroenterology	95	1.6%	$254,946	1.2%	4,983	52
General Practice	65	1.1%	$204,627	0.97%	4,010	62
Pediatric Medicine	20	0.34%	$149,905	0.71%	2,925	146
Hematology-Oncology	29	0.50%	$102,763	0.49%	2,018	70
Infectious Disease	25	0.43%	$87,744	0.42%	1,720	69
Geriatric Medicine	15	0.26%	$79,678	0.38%	1,653	110
Ophthalmology	19	0.33%	$55,304	0.26%	1,079	57
General Surgery	23	0.40%	$51,353	0.24%	1,004	44

Not listed: 35 specialties with fewer than 11 billers (small cells).

Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners public use files (Original Medicare Part B fee-for-service). Provider-level lines (fewer than 11 beneficiaries suppressed by CMS); specialty is the provider type on claims. Data year 2020.

Top billers of 87635 nationally

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Original Medicare Part B fee-for-service only; CMS suppresses provider lines with fewer than 11 beneficiaries. How these figures are computed · Limitations