	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	1,020	$5,075,887	99,100	30	238
New York	1,200	$4,684,751	91,519	35	295
Texas	761	$2,305,321	45,086	31	191
Tennessee	717	$1,798,153	35,291	30	133
Alabama	469	$1,693,553	33,210	45	212
New Jersey	466	$1,659,138	32,406	33	240
Florida	358	$1,539,473	30,084	31	221
Louisiana	468	$1,467,466	28,712	47	167
North Carolina	672	$1,451,025	28,348	26	120
South Carolina	386	$1,379,014	27,040	52	165
Georgia	474	$1,338,183	26,193	29	163
Missouri	396	$1,164,132	22,726	39	174
Michigan	322	$1,110,755	21,699	47	164
Illinois	315	$1,024,807	20,002	27	127
Mississippi	348	$1,013,132	19,883	35	156

Not listed: 7 billers with an armed-forces or unknown state code (AE, AP, XX, ZZ); they are in the national totals.

Not listed: 2 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 2021.

Top metro areas

	observed	calculated	calculated	calculated
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	1,300	$5,366,922	104,790	37
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	299	$2,241,543	43,793	35
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	216	$874,621	17,049	29
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	224	$776,126	15,135	54
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	243	$752,957	14,693	36
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	294	$685,852	13,377	25
St. Louis, MO-IL	184	$680,735	13,284	60
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	142	$658,205	12,853	36
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	73	$652,829	12,726	30
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	338	$628,531	12,271	26
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	156	$616,400	12,041	35
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	148	$597,863	11,703	32
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	167	$585,580	11,429	38
Birmingham, AL	155	$520,377	10,180	41
Memphis, TN-MS-AR	157	$500,268	9,795	45

Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners public use files (Original Medicare Part B fee-for-service). The 96 areas with the most payment among those with at least 11 billers; non-metro parts of each state are one area. Data year 2021.

Specialties billing 87635 nationally

Nurse Practitioner accounts for 26% of payment for 87635 nationally in 2021, across 29 specialties on claims.

	observed	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated
Nurse Practitioner	4,106	31%	$10,533,229	26%	206,019	50
Family Practice	3,216	24%	$9,248,662	22%	181,162	56
Physician Assistant	2,659	20%	$7,623,704	18%	148,921	56
Internal Medicine	1,436	11%	$4,167,451	10%	81,566	57
Clinical Laboratory	216	1.6%	$3,950,330	9.6%	77,066	357
Emergency Medicine	619	4.7%	$2,149,194	5.2%	42,027	68
Gastroenterology	142	1.1%	$444,169	1.1%	8,680	61
General Practice	117	0.89%	$424,291	1.0%	8,366	72
Pathology	19	0.14%	$390,439	0.95%	7,627	401
Pediatric Medicine	40	0.30%	$188,388	0.46%	3,676	92
Hematology-Oncology	28	0.21%	$163,679	0.40%	3,199	114
Pulmonary Disease	67	0.51%	$149,466	0.36%	2,923	44
General Surgery	44	0.33%	$128,072	0.31%	2,506	57
Geriatric Medicine	26	0.20%	$119,033	0.29%	2,323	89
Pain Management	18	0.14%	$93,265	0.23%	1,825	101

Not listed: 37 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 2021.

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