Cataract surgery clinicians
CMS lists 13,289 clinicians with a primary specialty of Ophthalmology who have billed Medicare for at least one cataract surgery (details below).
States and territories
# of clinicians performing cataract surgery
- Alabama 162
- Alaska 32
- Arizona 239
- Arkansas 95
- California 1,691
- Colorado 216
- Connecticut 177
- Delaware 67
- District of Columbia 75
- Florida 957
- Georgia 364
- Guam 9
- Hawaii 80
- Idaho 76
- Illinois 546
- Indiana 204
- Iowa 126
- Kansas 123
- Kentucky 182
- Louisiana 192
- Maine 60
- Maryland 379
- Massachusetts 402
- Michigan 461
- Minnesota 262
- Mississippi 129
- Missouri 238
- Montana 56
- Nebraska 83
- Nevada 101
- New Hampshire 74
- New Jersey 527
- New Mexico 65
- New York 1,046
- North Carolina 391
- North Dakota 28
- Northern Mariana Islands 1
- Ohio 475
- Oklahoma 116
- Oregon 223
- Pennsylvania 657
- Puerto Rico 162
- Rhode Island 46
- South Carolina 243
- South Dakota 35
- Tennessee 253
- Texas 973
- U.S. Virgin Islands 8
- Utah 153
- Vermont 37
- Virginia 405
- Washington 324
- West Virginia 85
- Wisconsin 239
- Wyoming 23
A clinician who practices in more than one state is counted in each state.
Understanding CMS Data
CMS's "Cataract surgery" category combines specific billing codes for cataract surgery to calculate the number of times each clinician billed Medicare for a "Cataract surgery." These include lens replacement surgery and YAG laser capsulotomy, a laser treatment that can follow cataract surgery. 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 cataract surgeries a clinician performed during the reporting period. Lastly, only clinicians with a primary specialty of Ophthalmology (as reported to Medicare) are presented.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (August 18, 2026 release).