Breast cancer surgery clinicians in Houston, Texas

CMS lists 69 clinicians with a primary specialty of General Surgery or Surgical Oncology who have billed Medicare for at least one mastectomy procedure and practice in Houston, Texas (details below).

Breast cancer surgery volume

Clinician	Mastectomy procedures billed	Percentile rank
Diana Hook, MD	67	96%
Suellen Arentz, MD	57	94%
Sherry Lim, MD	47	90%
Diana Liang, MD	42	88%
Jennifer Sasaki, MD	41	88%
Matthew Piotrowski, MD	40	87%
Jessica Colen, MD	39	86%
Sandra Templeton, MD	38	86%
Fedra Fallahian, MD	37	85%
Fernando Angarita, MD	36	85%
Nina Tamirisa, MD	36	85%
Elizabeth Bonefas, MD	35	84%
Rosario Hwang, MD	34	83%
Cristina Checka, MD	33	83%
Solange Cox, MD	33	83%
Helen Johnson, MD	33	83%
Michelino Scarlata, MD	33	83%
Elizabeth Fitzsullivan	31	81%
Catherine Akay, MD	30	80%
Sarah Desnyder, MD	28	79%
Heather Lillemoe, MD	27	78%
Puneet Singh, MD	27	78%
Makesha Miggins, MD	26	77%
Susie Sun, MD	26	77%
Federico Tozzi, MD	26	77%
Linda Pak, MD	23	74%
Loren Rourke, MD	22	73%
Richard Ehlers, MD	20	71%
Taiwo Adesoye, MD	19	70%
Dana Holwitt, MD	19	70%
Emily Robinson, MD	19	70%
Caroline Fiser, MD	18	68%
Kerollos Wanis, MD	18	68%
Abigail Caudle, MD	16	66%
Haydee Del Calvo, MD	16	66%
Kim Keller, MD	15	64%
Isabelle Bedrosian, MD	14	63%
Leonidas Miranda, MD	13	61%
Alastair Thompson, MD	11	58%
Zeinab Alawadi, MD	1-10	58% or below
Jessica Buicko Lopez, MD	1-10	58% or below
Stacey Carter, MD	1-10	58% or below
Casey Duncan, MD	1-10	58% or below
Glen Garner, MD	1-10	58% or below
Amanda Garza, MD	1-10	58% or below
Nicole Harris, MD	1-10	58% or below
Cary Hsu, MD	1-10	58% or below
Kelly Hunt, MD	1-10	58% or below
Amir Karni, MD	1-10	58% or below
Michael Keller, MD	1-10	58% or below
Ranjith Krishnankutty, MD	1-10	58% or below
Henry Kuerer	1-10	58% or below
Courtney Lattimore, MD	1-10	58% or below
Hoang Le, MD	1-10	58% or below
Jorge Leiva, MD	1-10	58% or below
Anthony Lucci, MD	1-10	58% or below
Funda Meric, MD	1-10	58% or below
William Ratliff, MD	1-10	58% or below
Mayrim Rios Perez, MD	1-10	58% or below
Kristin Rojas, MD	1-10	58% or below
Merrick Ross, MD	1-10	58% or below
Christophe Salcedo, MD	1-10	58% or below
Eric Silberfein, MD	1-10	58% or below
Dexter Turnquest, MD	1-10	58% or below
Rick Vavolizza, MD	1-10	58% or below
Lixana Vega Vega, MD	1-10	58% or below
Roi Weiser, MD	1-10	58% or below
Kevin Wheeler, MD	1-10	58% or below
Tarek Zaghloul, MD	1-10	58% or below

Sorted by the number of mastectomy procedures billed to Medicare, highest first, not by quality or skill. CMS suppresses counts between 1 and 10 to protect patient privacy and publishes the range instead.

Understanding CMS Data

CMS's "Mastectomy" category combines specific billing codes for breast surgery to calculate the number of times each clinician billed Medicare for a "Mastectomy." These include partial removal of the breast (lumpectomy); removal of the whole breast, with or without underarm lymph nodes; breast reconstruction after mastectomy; implant and implant-capsule procedures; breast lift and reduction; placement of a radiation device during surgery; and surgery for enlarged male breast tissue. CMS reports only procedures that clinicians billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Therefore, CMS's procedure volume data does not include procedures that clinicians may have performed on patients who have other health care coverage (e.g., commercial insurance, self-pay, or the VA). Billing variation and coding errors can also affect CMS's data. Therefore, the number of procedures that CMS reports for a clinician may be higher or lower than the actual number of mastectomy procedures a clinician performed during the reporting period. Lastly, only clinicians with a primary specialty of General Surgery or Surgical Oncology (as reported to Medicare) are presented.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (August 18, 2026 release).