Cataract surgery clinicians in Fairfax, Virginia

CMS lists 43 clinicians with a primary specialty of Ophthalmology who have billed Medicare for at least one cataract surgery and practice in Fairfax, Virginia (details below).

Cataract surgery volume

Clinician	Cataract surgeries billed	Percentile rank
Kourosh Nazari, MD	1,309	99%
John Josephson, MD	895	98%
John Essepian, MD	566	93%
Hubert Pham, MD	379	85%
Mark Falls, MD	278	77%
Sabita Ittoop, MD	250	74%
John McAllister, MD	245	73%
John Martin, MD	213	69%
Jessica Oliver, MD	177	64%
John Baldinger, MD	169	63%
Meghan Moroux, MD	156	60%
Samuel Yun, MD	155	60%
Alex Manguikian, MD	149	59%
Anvesh Annadanam, MD	142	58%
Bella Patnaik, MD	139	57%
Erin Ong, MD	134	57%
Patrick Kaszubski, MD	127	55%
Linda Dressler, MD	126	55%
Sonya Shah, MD	125	55%
Julie Leigh, MD	102	50%
Amritha Sundaresan, MD	102	50%
Noureen Khan, MD	89	47%
Shelly Watson, MD	66	42%
Dian Yu, MD	66	42%
Wellington Chang, MD	54	39%
Yonwook Kim, MD	48	37%
Christina Bruno, MD	47	37%
Juliana Park, MD	43	35%
Prema Modak, MD	39	34%
Jordana Fein, MD	32	32%
Mary McAteer, MD	25	29%
Mehrine Shaikh, MD	18	25%
David Forster, MD	12	21%
Rachel Chen, MD	1-10	21% or below
David Chu, MD	1-10	21% or below
Minh Phuong Doan, MD	1-10	21% or below
Felix Kung, MD	1-10	21% or below
Joshua Levinson, MD	1-10	21% or below
Katherine McCabe, MD	1-10	21% or below
Alexander Melamud, MD	1-10	21% or below
Sneha Padidam	1-10	21% or below
Kush Patel, MD	1-10	21% or below
Lazaros Volikas, 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).