Coronary angioplasty and stenting volume in Miami, Florida

50 clinicians CMS lists under interventional cardiology, cardiology and its subspecialties, cardiac or thoracic surgery, or internal medicine billed at least one coronary angioplasty and stenting procedure in Miami in the August 2026 release.

CMS reports coronary angioplasty and stenting as a single category. These are the procedures commonly known as heart stents, coronary stents, stent placement and balloon angioplasty, and they are performed by clinicians CMS lists under interventional cardiology, cardiology and its subspecialties, cardiac or thoracic surgery, or internal medicine.

Clinicians

Clinician	Coronary angioplasty and stenting procedures billed	Percentile rank
Sameer Mehta, MD	265	99%
Nirat Beohar, MD	75	92%
Nish Patel, MD	49	82%
Carlos Alfonso, MD	37	72%
Francisco Smith Palacios, MD	34	69%
Dan Krauthamer, MD	31	66%
Todd Heimowitz, DO	30	65%
Jorge Betancor, MD	27	60%
Aditya Bharadwaj, MD	27	60%
Ravikanth Chiravuri, MD	27	60%
Pablo Vivas, MD	25	58%
Kevin Ergle, MD	24	56%
Patrick Hourani, MD	23	55%
Abdul-Rahman Jaraki, MD	23	55%
Bernardo Lopez Sanabria, MD	23	55%
Oliver Abela, MD	19	47%
David Mishkel, MD	19	47%
Andres Palomo, MD	18	45%
Ramon Quesada, MD	18	45%
Karthik Vedantam, MD	17	43%
Hector Crespo-Gosende, MD	14	37%
Alvaro Gomez, MD	13	34%
Cesar Mendoza, MD	13	34%
Juan Zambrano, MD	12	32%
Gilberto Concepcion, MD	11	29%
Jaime Altamirano, MD	1-10	29% or below
Joao Braghiroli	1-10	29% or below
Stratego Castanes, MD	1-10	29% or below
Vinod Chainani, MD	1-10	29% or below
Pedro Cox-Alomar, MD	1-10	29% or below
Kevin Coy, MD	1-10	29% or below
Francis Crespo, MD	1-10	29% or below
Juan Cueto, MD	1-10	29% or below
Eduardo De Marchena, MD	1-10	29% or below
Michael Dyal, MD	1-10	29% or below
Alexandre Ferreira, MD	1-10	29% or below
Camilo Gomez, MD	1-10	29% or below
Dean Heller, MD	1-10	29% or below
Leon Hirzel, MD	1-10	29% or below
Walid Ibrahim, MD	1-10	29% or below
Christopher Mallavarapu, MD	1-10	29% or below
Jose Marquez, MD	1-10	29% or below
Pedro Martinez-Clark, MD	1-10	29% or below
Jorge Montilla, MD	1-10	29% or below
Bashar Obeidou, MD	1-10	29% or below
Shaun Smithson, MD	1-10	29% or below
Marcus St John, MD	1-10	29% or below
Marcos Valerio, MD	1-10	29% or below
Brian Valle, DO	1-10	29% or below
Juan Vinardell Lorenzo, MD	1-10	29% or below

Sorted by the number of coronary angioplasty and stenting procedures billed to Medicare, highest first. This is an ordering of one published figure, not a ranking of quality, skill, or outcomes. CMS suppresses counts of 10 and below to protect patient privacy and publishes the range instead, which is not a count of zero; 25 of these clinicians carry that range.

Understanding CMS Data

These figures are based on coronary angioplasty and stenting procedures billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage as reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in their August 2026 data release. The CMS data doesn't include procedures performed for patients who have other health care coverage (e.g., commercially insured, self pay, or VA). Furthermore, CMS sums up specific billing codes covering balloon angioplasty, stent placement, plaque removal, and related catheter treatments of the arteries of the heart to calculate this total. The category is named for the group of procedures it covers, not for what each one involved: a procedure counts whether or not a stent was placed. Billing variation and coding errors could potentially affect CMS's data. Therefore, the coronary angioplasty and stenting volume data reported by CMS may be higher or lower than the actual total coronary angioplasty and stenting procedures performed by a clinician. We share the total coronary angioplasty and stenting figures for the clinicians CMS lists under interventional cardiology, cardiology and its subspecialties, cardiac or thoracic surgery, or internal medicine as CMS publishes them, without alteration.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (August 2026 release).