Who bills the most Removal of plaque in artery of leg, initial vessel (37229) to Medicare in Georgia?
Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS3 physician groups billed Removal of plaque in artery of leg, initial vessel (37229) to Medicare fee-for-service in Georgia in 2024; independent (non-hospital-affiliated) groups deliver 0%.
37229 — Removal of plaque in artery of leg, initial vessel · Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners PUF (Part B), CY2024 release. Medicare fee-for-service only.
Snapshot covers the whole Georgia market — the table below shows the top 100 groups (free tier).
Medicare fee-for-service covers 45% of Medicare in Georgia; Medicare Advantage penetration 43% → 55% since 2020.
| # | Physician group | City | St | Specialty | Providers | 37229 svcs | Share* | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INSTITUTE OF RESTORATIVE MEDICINE | JONESBORO | GA | INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY | 2 | 72 | 31.0% | (770) 525-2384 |
| 2 | ST FRANCIS PHYSICIAN PRACTICES LLC | COLUMBUS | GA | DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY | 177 | 37 | 15.9% | (706) 320-2773 |
| 3 | SAVANNAH VASCULAR INSTITUTE, LLC | SAVANNAH | GA | VASCULAR SURGERY | 21 | 23 | 9.9% | (912) 352-8346 |
*Share of Georgia's disclosed Medicare-FFS services for 37229, counted once per clinician. Volume is placed in the state it was billed from, so this page ranks the groups actually billing 37229 in Georgia — 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 →