Cataract surgery clinicians in Lexington, Kentucky

CMS lists 39 clinicians with a primary specialty of Ophthalmology who have billed Medicare for at least one cataract surgery and practice in Lexington, Kentucky (details below).

Cataract surgery volume

Clinician	Cataract surgeries billed	Percentile rank
Gary Wortz, MD	1,196	99%
Asim Piracha, MD	804	97%
Johannes Evans, MD	634	94%
Lance Ferguson, MD	560	93%
Kyle Ferguson, DO	326	81%
Michael Newcomb, MD	235	72%
John Conklin, MD	136	57%
David Garrett	117	54%
Jitander Dudee, MD	105	51%
Ryan Smith, MD	100	50%
Jon Hammer, MD	90	48%
Seema Capoor, MD	71	43%
Elham Ghahari, MD	54	39%
Christine Rust, MD	49	37%
Andrew Fink, MD	44	36%
Sheila Sanders, MD	42	35%
Ana Bastos De Carvalho, MD	39	34%
Kenneth Weaver, MD	37	33%
Douglas Katz, MD	35	33%
Bradford Tannen, MD	30	31%
Daniel Moore, MD	25	29%
Linda Katz, MD	22	27%
Mary Reams, MD	22	27%
David Kielar, MD	18	25%
Garrett Oberst, MD	17	25%
Manokamna Agarwal, MD	12	21%
Blake Isernhagen, MD	12	21%
Fareed Rifai, MD	12	21%
Michelle Abou-Jaoude, MD	1-10	21% or below
Aditya Bansal, MD	1-10	21% or below
Peter Blackburn, MD	1-10	21% or below
Leanne Clevenger, MD	1-10	21% or below
Lucy Franklin, MD	1-10	21% or below
Claire Fraser, MD	1-10	21% or below
Sayyada Hyder, MD	1-10	21% or below
Paul Pearson, MD	1-10	21% or below
Aaron Ricca, MD	1-10	21% or below
Belinda Shirkey, MD	1-10	21% or below
Thomas Stone, 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).