Who bills the most Removal of plaque and insertion of stents in arteries of leg (37227) to Medicare in California?
Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS16 physician groups billed Removal of plaque and insertion of stents in arteries of leg (37227) to Medicare fee-for-service in California in 2024; the top five named groups hold 69% of that volume, and independent (non-hospital-affiliated) groups deliver 0%.
37227 — Removal of plaque and insertion of stents in arteries of leg · 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 | 37227 svcs | Share* | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BASS MEDICAL GROUP | WALNUT CREEK | CA | OTOLARYNGOLOGY | 318 | 232 | 15.5% | — |
| 2 | SAN FERNANDO VALLEY VASCULAR GROUP A MEDICAL CORPORATION | WEST HILLS | CA | VASCULAR SURGERY | 4 | 92 | 6.2% | (818) 345-6126 |
| 3 | POLYXENE GAZETAS KOKINOS MD PC | CAMPBELL | CA | VASCULAR SURGERY | 5 | 56 | 3.8% | (408) 376-3626 |
| 4 | EMPIRE VEIN AND VASCULAR SPECIALISTS | RANCHO MIRAGE | CA | VASCULAR SURGERY | 6 | 55 | 3.7% | 76056834613 |
| 5 | ORANGE COUNTY VASCULAR SPECIALISTS, INC. | NEWPORT BEACH | CA | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT | 2 | 48 | 3.2% | (949) 574-7176 |
| 6 | SPEARMAN MD INC | ARROYO GRANDE | CA | DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY | 2 | 37 | 2.5% | (805) 473-8346 |
| 7 | FARSHAD MALEKMEHR MD INC | ENCINO | CA | CARDIAC SURGERY | 2 | 31 | 2.1% | (818) 908-9752 |
| 8 | EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER | RANCHO MIRAGE | CA | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 457 | 27 | 1.8% | (760) 340-3911 |
| 9 | MISSION SURGICAL CLINIC INC | CORONA | CA | VASCULAR SURGERY | 5 | 21 | 1.4% | (951) 278-8870 |
| 10 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL SOLUTIONS MEDICAL CORPORATION | SAN JOSE | CA | INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY | 5 | 20 | 1.3% | (408) 918-0405 |
| 11 | MONTEREY BAY VASCULAR INC | APTOS | CA | GENERAL SURGERY | 3 | 19 | 1.3% | (831) 318-0010 |
| 12 | JERRY KIM MD INC | POMONA | CA | VASCULAR SURGERY | 3 | 18 | 1.2% | (909) 973-1148 |
| 13 | PACIFIC CARDIOVASCULAR AND VEIN INSTITUTE INC | OXNARD | CA | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT | 5 | 14 | 0.9% | (805) 643-3330 |
| 14 | STOCKTON CARDIOLOGY MEDICAL GROUP COMPLETE HEART CARE INC | STOCKTON | CA | CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY) | 14 | 12 | 0.8% | — |
| 15 | KEVIN M CASEY MD APMC | SANTA BARBARA | CA | VASCULAR SURGERY | 4 | 12 | 0.8% | 8054568890127 |
| 16 | STANFORD HEALTH CARE | STANFORD | CA | DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY | 3039 | 11 | 0.7% | (650) 723-4000 |
*Share of California's disclosed Medicare-FFS services for 37227, counted once per clinician. Volume is placed in the state it was billed from, so this page ranks the groups actually billing 37227 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 →