Cataract surgery volume in Birmingham, Alabama

40 clinicians CMS lists under Ophthalmology billed at least one cataract surgery in Birmingham in the June 2026 release.

Clinicians

Clinician	Cataract surgeries billed	Percentile rank
Matthew Albright, MD	851	97%
Mark Bearman, MD	642	95%
Stephen Kelly, MD	386	86%
Carolyn Hebson, MD	324	81%
Walter Parker, MD	291	78%
Kristin Bains, MD	270	76%
Kenneth Smith, MD	243	73%
Rayder Feagin, MD	213	69%
Kathleen Gee	211	69%
Darrell Joiner, MD	207	69%
Marc Michelson, MD	166	62%
Michael Callahan, MD	158	61%
Sara Mullins, MD	152	60%
Blythe Monheit, MD	148	59%
Lindsay Rhodes, MD	143	58%
Shae Steward, MD	121	54%
Tyler Hall, MD	114	53%
Jennifer Michelson, MD	110	52%
Brian Samuels, MD	94	49%
Jeffrey Fuller, MD	77	45%
Timothy Johnson, MD	66	42%
Connor Dugan, MD	62	41%
Christopher Girkin, MD	37	34%
Nikolas Hopkins, MD	33	32%
Richard Martindale, MD	12	21%
Michael Albert, MD	1-10	21% or below
Cary Baxter, MD	1-10	21% or below
Harshvardhan Chawla, MD	1-10	21% or below
Jason Crosson, MD	1-10	21% or below
Richard Feist, MD	1-10	21% or below
Richard Feist, MD	1-10	21% or below
Nathan Fischer, MD	1-10	21% or below
John Mason, MD	1-10	21% or below
John Morgan, MD	1-10	21% or below
Matthew Oltmanns, MD	1-10	21% or below
John Owen, MD	1-10	21% or below
Phillip Qu, MD	1-10	21% or below
Benjamin Roberts, MD	1-10	21% or below
Mathew Sapp, MD	1-10	21% or below
Matthew West, MD	1-10	21% or below

Sorted by the number of cataract surgeries billed to Medicare, highest first. This is an ordering of one published figure, not a ranking of quality, skill, or outcomes. CMS suppresses counts of 10 and below to protect patient privacy and publishes the range instead, which is not a count of zero; 15 of these clinicians carry that range.

Understanding CMS Data

These figures are based on cataract surgeries billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage as reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in their June 2026 data release. The CMS data doesn't include procedures performed for patients who have other health care coverage (e.g., commercially insured, self pay, or VA). Furthermore, CMS sums up specific billing codes that cover lens replacement surgery and YAG laser capsulotomy to calculate the total number of cataract surgeries. Billing variation and coding errors could potentially affect CMS's data. Therefore, the cataract surgery volume data reported by CMS may be higher or lower than the actual total cataract surgeries performed by a clinician. We share the total cataract surgery figures for the clinicians CMS lists under Ophthalmology as CMS publishes them, without alteration.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (June 2026 release).