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Cataract surgery clinicians in Birmingham, Alabama

CMS lists 37 clinicians with a primary specialty of Ophthalmology who have billed Medicare for at least one cataract surgery and practice in Birmingham, Alabama (details below).

Cataract surgery volume

Clinician Cataract surgeries billed Percentile rank
Matthew Albright, MD 852 97%
Mark Bearman, MD 643 95%
Stephen Kelly, MD 386 85%
Carolyn Hebson, MD 329 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 208 68%
Marc Michelson, MD 166 62%
Michael Callahan, MD 159 61%
Sara Mullins, MD 152 60%
Blythe Monheit, MD 149 59%
Lindsay Rhodes, MD 143 58%
Shae Steward, MD 121 54%
Tyler Hall, MD 114 53%
Jennifer Michelson, MD 110 52%
Brian Samuels, MD 96 49%
Jeffrey Fuller, MD 77 45%
Timothy Johnson, MD 66 42%
Christopher Girkin, MD 37 33%
Nikolas Hopkins, MD 35 33%
Richard Martindale, MD 13 22%
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
John Mason, 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, not by quality or skill. CMS suppresses counts between 1 and 10 to protect patient privacy and publishes the range instead.

Reported in previous releases

CMS does not report a cataract surgery volume for these clinicians in the August 18, 2026 release. Their pages show figures from earlier releases.

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).