Coronary angioplasty and stenting clinicians in Richmond, Virginia

CMS lists 37 clinicians with a primary specialty of interventional cardiology, cardiology and its subspecialties, cardiac or thoracic surgery, or internal medicine who have billed Medicare for at least one coronary angioplasty and stenting procedure and practice in Richmond, Virginia (details below).

Coronary angioplasty and stenting volume

Clinician	Coronary angioplasty and stenting procedures billed	Percentile rank
Arijit Chanda, MD	156	99%
Zeshan Rana, MD	109	97%
John Owens	100	96%
Peter Ro, MD	83	94%
Manu Kaushik, MD	80	93%
Barbara Lawson, MD	77	93%
Nayef Abouzaki, MD	70	91%
Varun Maheshwari, MD	68	90%
Hamza Lodhi, MD	62	88%
Michael Arcarese, MD	47	81%
Hoyle Whiteside, MD	41	76%
Michael Wittkamp, MD	39	74%
Shashi Prabhakar, MD	38	73%
Robert Levitt, MD	35	70%
Jasdeep Dalawari, MD	33	68%
Sudeep Kuchibhotla, MD	32	67%
Ali Yassen, MD	30	64%
Gouthami Chennu, MD	29	63%
Jaspreet Singh, MD	28	62%
David Lee, MD	27	60%
Mohammad Rajab, MD	24	56%
Peter Riley, MD	23	55%
Deepak Thomas, MD	22	53%
Anoop Shah, MD	21	51%
Matthew Chung, MD	19	47%
Darryn Appleton, MD	15	39%
Ashwani Kumar, MD	15	39%
Mark Xenakis, MD	15	39%
Michael Erwin, MD	12	32%
John Posenau, MD	11	29%
William Coble, MD	1-10	29% or below
Richard Cooke	1-10	29% or below
James Garnett, MD	1-10	29% or below
Zachary Gertz, MD	1-10	29% or below
Siamak Karimian, MD	1-10	29% or below
Ryan Melchior, DO	1-10	29% or below
Suraj Mishra, MD	1-10	29% or below

Sorted by the number of coronary angioplasty and stenting procedures 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 "Coronary angioplasty and stenting" category combines specific billing codes for treating the arteries of the heart to calculate the number of times each clinician billed Medicare for "Coronary angioplasty and stenting." These include balloon angioplasty, stent placement, plaque removal, and related catheter treatments, which patients often call heart stents or coronary stents. CMS names the category for the group of procedures it covers, not for what each one involved: a procedure counts whether or not it included a stent. 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 coronary angioplasty and stenting procedures a clinician performed during the reporting period. Lastly, only clinicians with a primary specialty of interventional cardiology, cardiology and its subspecialties, cardiac or thoracic surgery, or internal medicine (as reported to Medicare) are presented.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (August 18, 2026 release).