Cataract surgery clinicians in Aurora, Colorado

CMS lists 35 clinicians with a primary specialty of Ophthalmology who have billed Medicare for at least one cataract surgery and practice in Aurora, Colorado (details below).

Cataract surgery volume

Clinician	Cataract surgeries billed	Percentile rank
Cara Capitena Young, MD	433	88%
Michael Taravella, MD	365	84%
Richard Davidson, MD	356	83%
Gregory Fliney, MD	331	82%
Leonard Seibold, MD	260	75%
Michael Wildes, MD	240	72%
Justin Coco, DO	218	70%
Richard Stiverson, MD	202	68%
Monica Ertel, MD	190	66%
Mina Pantcheva, MD	159	61%
Jeffrey Soohoo, MD	104	51%
Kim Burrell, DO	61	41%
Ronald Wise, MD	57	40%
James Burcham, MD	44	36%
Michael Chen, MD	41	35%
William Roberts, MD	23	28%
Meredith Spitz, MD	16	24%
Darren Gregory, MD	15	24%
Jessica Kraker, MD	15	24%
Travis Redd, MD	12	21%
Lama Assi, MD	1-10	21% or below
Ross Chod, MD	1-10	21% or below
Marilyn Dougherty, MD	1-10	21% or below
Christopher Gelston, MD	1-10	21% or below
Michael Jansen, MD	1-10	21% or below
Zachary Koretz, MD	1-10	21% or below
Niranjan Manoharan, MD	1-10	21% or below
Marc Mathias, MD	1-10	21% or below
Scott Oliver, MD	1-10	21% or below
Jeffrey Olson, MD	1-10	21% or below
Daniel Ozzello, MD	1-10	21% or below
Alan Palestine, MD	1-10	21% or below
Brittany Perzia, MD	1-10	21% or below
Jesse Smith, MD	1-10	21% or below
Jared Sokol, 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.

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).