	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
New York	1,198	$6,469,890	127,942	38	330
California	1,158	$6,182,387	122,087	33	228
Tennessee	853	$1,951,570	38,882	29	130
Texas	684	$1,864,749	36,887	28	182
Georgia	598	$1,716,430	34,182	35	162
North Carolina	771	$1,602,351	31,766	26	105
Massachusetts	273	$1,601,834	31,701	30	211
Michigan	409	$1,535,534	30,468	41	207
New Jersey	405	$1,421,198	28,121	34	229
Illinois	496	$1,420,330	28,129	30	152
Florida	280	$1,374,092	27,266	34	288
Alabama	474	$1,362,212	27,005	35	160
South Carolina	424	$1,181,210	23,496	43	130
Missouri	365	$1,153,007	22,809	40	177
Mississippi	311	$1,019,209	20,329	44	176

Not listed: 6 billers with an armed-forces or unknown state code (AE, AP); they are in the national totals.

Not listed: 3 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 2022.

Top metro areas

	observed	calculated	calculated	calculated
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	1,209	$6,860,296	135,586	42
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	304	$2,803,603	55,321	35
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	189	$1,190,270	23,556	27
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	251	$1,172,072	23,145	32
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	275	$1,149,153	22,748	48
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	368	$1,073,415	21,261	37
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	340	$865,818	17,121	28
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	437	$813,048	16,132	25
St. Louis, MO-IL	183	$772,994	15,290	76
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	142	$563,891	11,156	31
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	153	$560,530	11,079	39
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	83	$557,088	11,091	35
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	154	$517,079	10,224	36
Memphis, TN-MS-AR	155	$494,699	9,828	41
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	123	$452,484	9,009	56

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 2022.

Specialties billing 87635 nationally

Nurse Practitioner accounts for 25% of payment for 87635 nationally in 2022, across 22 specialties on claims.

	observed	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated	calculated
Nurse Practitioner	4,404	31%	$11,252,262	25%	223,145	51
Family Practice	3,659	26%	$9,712,011	22%	192,713	53
Physician Assistant	2,997	21%	$8,552,473	19%	169,249	56
Clinical Laboratory	207	1.4%	$4,795,820	11%	94,743	458
Internal Medicine	1,599	11%	$4,724,131	11%	93,684	59
Emergency Medicine	600	4.2%	$2,435,218	5.5%	48,205	80
Gastroenterology	120	0.84%	$393,206	0.89%	7,791	65
General Practice	108	0.76%	$340,814	0.77%	6,774	63
Pulmonary Disease	93	0.65%	$290,641	0.65%	5,795	62
Cardiology	45	0.32%	$182,439	0.41%	3,604	80
Geriatric Medicine	30	0.21%	$160,275	0.36%	3,166	106
Hematology-Oncology	27	0.19%	$131,663	0.30%	2,590	96
Pathology	21	0.15%	$126,220	0.28%	2,491	119
General Surgery	38	0.27%	$88,816	0.20%	1,839	48
Pediatric Medicine	33	0.23%	$83,596	0.19%	1,652	50

Not listed: 40 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 2022.

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