Who bills the most Removal of plaque and insertion of stents in arteries of leg (37227) to Medicare in Tennessee?
Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS8 physician groups billed Removal of plaque and insertion of stents in arteries of leg (37227) to Medicare fee-for-service in Tennessee in 2024; independent (non-hospital-affiliated) groups deliver 4%.
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 Tennessee market — the table below shows the top 100 groups (free tier).
Medicare fee-for-service covers 47% of Medicare in Tennessee; Medicare Advantage penetration 42% → 53% since 2020.
| # | Physician group | City | St | Specialty | Providers | 37227 svcs | Share* | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VASCULAR AND VEIN INSTITUTE OF THE SOUTH PLLC | GERMANTOWN | TN | VASCULAR SURGERY | 11 | 235 | 39.0% | (901) 390-2930 |
| 2 | VASCULAR INSTITUTE OF CHATTANOOGA, PLLC | CHATTANOOGA | TN | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 19 | 82 | 13.6% | (423) 602-2750 |
| 3 | INNOVATIVE VASCULAR, PLLC | LENOIR CITY | TN | VASCULAR SURGERY | 5 | 34 | 5.6% | (865) 562-3232 |
| 4 | ADVANCED DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING PC | NASHVILLE | TN | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 534 | 34 | 5.6% | (615) 612-2146 |
| 5 | PREMIER SURGICAL ASSOCIATES PLLC | KNOXVILLE | TN | GENERAL SURGERY | 60 | 32 | 5.3% | (865) 690-5263 |
| 6 | SURGICAL ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE PLC | SPRINGFIELD | TN | GENERAL SURGERY | 7 | 29 | 4.8% | (615) 384-8211 |
| 7 | DELTA CLINICS PLC | JACKSON | TN | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 14 | 20 | 3.3% | (731) 512-0104 |
| 8 | SOUTHERN CARDIOVASCULAR PLLC | MEMPHIS | TN | CARDIAC SURGERY | 3 | 17 | 2.8% | (901) 259-2718 |
*Share of Tennessee'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 Tennessee — 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 →