Top billers · Wound Debridement · California

Who bills wound debridement in California?

In 2024, 1,328 providers billed Medicare for wound debridement in California: 599,880 services and an estimated $51.3M in Medicare payments. Below: the top 5 by service volume, straight from CMS's public billing data.

The list

The top 5 wound debridement billers in California.

Ranked by 2024 Medicare service volume across the family's codes.

#	Provider	Specialty	City	Services	Est. Medicare paid
1	Virgil Hernandez, D.P.M.	Podiatry	Santa Ana	21,277	$936K
2	John Simmonds, M.D	Orthopedic Surgery	Los Angeles	7,184	$514K
3	Ancel Rogers, M.D.	General Surgery	Colton	7,109	$305K
4	Larry Le, PA	Physician Assistant	Long Beach	7,029	$536K
5	Kathy Palatnik	General Surgery	El Segundo	6,357	$668K

That's the top 5. 1,323 more providers billed wound debridement in California in 2024. The full ranked list, with year-over-year history, group affiliations, and phone numbers, is one search in Prospect 811.

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The breakdown

What's behind the number.

Top codes in California

11042Removal of skin and tissue, 20.0 sq cm or less237,112

11043Removal of muscle and/or tissue, 20.0 sq cm or less110,078

11045Removal of skin and tissue, each additional 20.0 sq cm or less92,290

11046Removal of muscle and/or tissue, each additional 20.0 sq cm or less69,483

97597Removal of tissue from wound, 20.0 sq cm or less51,675

97598Removal of tissue from wound, each additional 20.0 sq cm16,074

Top specialties billing it

Podiatry632 providers

Nurse Practitioner166 providers

Physician Assistant120 providers

General Surgery92 providers

Where the billers are

Los Angeles119 providers

San Diego39 providers

Bakersfield23 providers

Beverly Hills22 providers

Palo Alto22 providers

City breakdown

The top wound debridement cities in California.

The same 2024 Medicare data, sliced by city: the biggest wound debridement cities by number of billers, in est.-Medicare-paid order.

In 2024 the top city for wound debridement in California by est. Medicare paid was Los Angeles: 119 providers billed 84,733 services for an estimated $7.6M, led by John Simmonds, M.D, with 7,184 services (est. $514K Medicare paid).

#	City	Billers	Services	Est. Medicare paid	City leader (2024)
1	Los Angeles	119	84,733	$7.6M	John Simmonds, M.D · 7,184 services · est. $514K
2	Beverly Hills	22	20,452	$1.7M	Kazuo Suzuki, DPM, CWS · 5,819 services · est. $346K
3	San Diego	39	18,192	$1.6M	Jamison Feramisco, MD, PHD · 2,691 services · est. $232K
4	Torrance	22	9,768	$1.0M	Andrew Shover · 1,838 services · est. $215K
5	Bakersfield	23	11,582	$980K	Marc Jeremy Cruz, ACNPC-AG CRNFA · 2,588 services · est. $233K

City totals are cut from the same public CMS data as everything above: Medicare fee-for-service only, after CMS's under-11-beneficiary suppression, dollars always est. Medicare paid. Where a city shows fewer than 3 billers, we show the totals and name no one. Naming is capped by design: up to 5 ranked billers above plus at most one leader per city here, and no one else on this page.

Where these numbers come from. Everything on this page is computed from CMS's public Medicare Provider Utilization & Payment data for 2024, the most recent year CMS has released. It covers traditional Medicare fee-for-service only (no commercial insurance, no Medicare Advantage). CMS suppresses any provider-and-code line with fewer than 11 beneficiaries before publishing, so low-volume billers don't appear at all. "Est. Medicare paid" is each billing line's average Medicare payment multiplied by its service count, summed. One service is one debridement procedure line as billed to Medicare. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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