Cataract surgery clinicians in Tampa, Florida

CMS lists 47 clinicians with a primary specialty of Ophthalmology who have billed Medicare for at least one cataract surgery and practice in Tampa, Florida (details below).

Cataract surgery volume

Clinician	Cataract surgeries billed	Percentile rank
Thomas Newsom, MD	1,505	99%
Brian Szabo, DO	758	96%
Robert Weinstock, MD	676	95%
Neel Desai, MD	385	85%
Allen Pusateri, MD	268	76%
Akaanksh Shetty, MD	251	74%
Bradley Sifrig, MD	250	74%
Michael Levitt, MD	245	73%
Christopher Donovan, MD	231	71%
William Reynolds, MD	231	71%
David Leach, MD	230	71%
Nicolas Zaunbrecher, MD	189	66%
Timothy Lorenzen, MD	178	64%
Leonard Cortelli, MD	162	61%
John Jarstad, MD	131	56%
Craig Berger, MD	92	48%
William Newsom, MD	82	46%
Ramesh Ayyala, MD	76	45%
Amir Faramarzi, MD	75	44%
Ivan Suner, MD	65	42%
Bryan Garruto, MD	59	40%
Edgar Espana, MD	52	38%
Dominic Prado, MD	48	37%
Antonio Prado, MD	41	35%
Jorge Malouf, DO	35	33%
Marc Peden, MD	35	33%
Bernard Perez, MD	30	31%
Brent Mittelstaedt, DO	28	30%
Anna Nogales, MD	28	30%
Lisa Gamell, MD	22	27%
Don Perez, MD	19	26%
Maverick Perich, DO	16	24%
Ashley Crane, MD	14	23%
Syeda Sumara Taranum Basith, MD	1-10	21% or below
Swetangi Bhaleeya, MD	1-10	21% or below
Jose De Apodaca, MD	1-10	21% or below
David Eichenbaum, MD	1-10	21% or below
Pedram Hamrah, MD	1-10	21% or below
Ahmed Kassem, MD	1-10	21% or below
Selina Lin, MD	1-10	21% or below
Heidi Mina, MD	1-10	21% or below
Palak Patel, MD	1-10	21% or below
Mamta Patel, MD	1-10	21% or below
Nadim Rayess, MD	1-10	21% or below
Ramak Roohipourmoallai	1-10	21% or below
Sejal Shah Desai, MD	1-10	21% or below
Priya Vakharia, 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).