Who bills the most Capsaicin 8% patch, per square centimeter (J7336) to Medicare in California?
Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS3 physician groups billed Capsaicin 8% patch, per square centimeter (J7336) to Medicare fee-for-service in California in 2024; independent (non-hospital-affiliated) groups deliver 0%.
J7336 — Capsaicin 8% patch, per square centimeter · Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners PUF (Part B), CY2024 release. Medicare fee-for-service only.
Snapshot covers the whole California market — the table below shows the top 100 groups (free tier).
Medicare fee-for-service covers 49% of Medicare in California; Medicare Advantage penetration 45% → 51% since 2020.
| # | Physician group | City | St | Specialty | Providers | J7336 svcs | Share* | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION | LOS ANGELES | CA | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT | 1699 | 82,600 | 42.5% | (310) 423-0674 |
| 2 | NORTH COUNTY NEUROLOGY ASSOCIATES MEDICAL GROUP | CARLSBAD | CA | NEUROLOGY | 44 | 31,360 | 16.1% | (760) 631-3000 |
| 3 | CHRIS M BYRNE DPM INC | SAN LUIS OBISPO | CA | PODIATRY | 2 | 24,640 | 12.7% | (805) 543-7788 |
*Share of California's disclosed Medicare-FFS services for J7336, counted once per clinician. Volume is placed in the state it was billed from, so this page ranks the groups actually billing J7336 in California — including groups registered elsewhere ("City" is each group's registered location). Group figures sum clinicians affiliated with exactly one group; clinicians in several groups are listed in each group's drill-down but not volume-attributed to any single group.
How to read this. Figures are Medicare fee-for-service only — not all-payer — from the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners Public Use File (Part B), CY2024 release. CMS suppresses any provider×code row under 11 beneficiaries, so a missing group means "suppressed," never zero. "Charges" are provider-submitted amounts, not payments. Groups are ranked by measured service volume attributed to clinicians in exactly one group — clinicians affiliated with several groups are listed in rosters but never volume-attributed to a single group — a direct read of the public record, not a rating or quality score. Full method: Methods & Sources.
Comparing against an all-payer estimate?
These are exact counts from Medicare fee-for-service claims — roughly a third to half of most procedure markets, depending on payer mix. Modeled all-payer databases project the remainder statistically; we publish the audited floor and label it as such. Same market, different denominator. How the numbers reconcile →