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.

1,328
Providers billing wound debridement (2024)
599,880
Services billed
$51.3M
Est. Medicare paid
↑ 4%
Providers vs 2023
The list

The top 5 wound debridement billers in California.

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

#ProviderSpecialtyCityServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Virgil Hernandez, D.P.M.PodiatrySanta Ana21,277$936K
2John Simmonds, M.DOrthopedic SurgeryLos Angeles7,184$514K
3Ancel Rogers, M.D.General SurgeryColton7,109$305K
4Larry Le, PAPhysician AssistantLong Beach7,029$536K
5Kathy PalatnikGeneral SurgeryEl Segundo6,357$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
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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