Varicose vein ablation clinicians
CMS lists 7,038 clinicians who have billed Medicare for at least one varicose vein removal procedure (details below).
States and territories
# of clinicians performing varicose vein ablation
- Alabama 109
- Alaska 17
- Arizona 252
- Arkansas 54
- California 672
- Colorado 138
- Connecticut 115
- Delaware 31
- District of Columbia 22
- Florida 718
- Georgia 265
- Guam 2
- Hawaii 40
- Idaho 41
- Illinois 376
- Indiana 160
- Iowa 92
- Kansas 70
- Kentucky 101
- Louisiana 101
- Maine 37
- Maryland 161
- Massachusetts 149
- Michigan 245
- Minnesota 142
- Mississippi 62
- Missouri 132
- Montana 46
- Nebraska 66
- Nevada 87
- New Hampshire 44
- New Jersey 340
- New Mexico 50
- New York 568
- North Carolina 198
- North Dakota 32
- Northern Mariana Islands 1
- Ohio 226
- Oklahoma 69
- Oregon 86
- Pennsylvania 312
- Puerto Rico 14
- Rhode Island 26
- South Carolina 128
- South Dakota 39
- Tennessee 159
- Texas 718
- U.S. Virgin Islands 2
- Utah 81
- Vermont 12
- Virginia 227
- Washington 128
- West Virginia 54
- Wisconsin 160
- Wyoming 35
A clinician who practices in more than one state is counted in each state.
Understanding CMS Data
CMS's "Varicose vein removal" category combines specific billing codes for varicose vein treatment to calculate the number of times each clinician billed Medicare for a "Varicose vein removal." These include heat (radiofrequency or laser) ablation, medical adhesive closure, mechanochemical ablation, and sclerotherapy injections. All of these close a varicose vein in place rather than removing it, and the category does not include surgical removal of a vein (vein stripping or phlebectomy). A treatment counts whether it was an injection during an office visit or a catheter procedure, and a patient who has treatment in more than one session contributes to the total each time. CMS states that it excludes claim lines with modifiers indicating that a clinician performed a very limited role in a procedure. 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 varicose vein removal procedures a clinician performed during the reporting period. Lastly, we apply no specialty filter in this category, so this page includes clinicians of every primary specialty.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (October 2, 2026 release).
National Percentile Calculation
Who this section includes
CMS lists 7,039 clinicians in its "Varicose vein removal" category. This section covers 7,038 of them, of every primary specialty, and leaves out 1 clinician that CMS's clinician file has no record of, because a page needs the name and practice location that file supplies.
How the percentile works
CMS publishes its own percentile for this data using a single, national pool of every clinician it reports in this category. We apply CMS's percentile formula to that same pool, so our number answers the same question CMS's does: how does this clinician's procedure volume compare with every other clinician who billed Medicare for at least one varicose vein removal procedure in the same period, whatever their primary specialty?
CMS reports a count between 1 and 10 as "1-10" to protect patient privacy. Every clinician with a 1-10 count sits below every clinician with an exact count, so a clinician page shows their percentile as "45% or below" in the October 2, 2026 release.
Reading the volume chart
Reading the curve: find a volume along the bottom, and the line gives the percentile of every clinician CMS reports in this category, of any primary specialty at or below it. The shaded block covers the 3,160 clinicians CMS reports as 1-10, because CMS suppresses counts below 11. The axis runs from 0 to 2,293, the highest count CMS reports in the group, and gives low counts more room than high ones so the whole range fits. The labels under the axis mark the 25th percentile, the median and the 75th percentile; the 25th percentile falls inside the 1-10 range.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (October 2, 2026 release).
| Percentile | Varicose Vein Removal Procedures billed to Medicare |
|---|---|
| 50th | 13 |
| 60th | 22 |
| 70th | 38 |
| 80th | 72 |
| 90th | 178 |
| Highest | 2,293 |
About CMS data releases
CMS refreshes this data "on a quarterly basis, as technically feasible." Each release counts procedures over what CMS describes as "a one-year observation window, with a lookback beginning three months prior to the present day", allowing three months for claims to be submitted and processed. CMS does not publish the start and end dates of the window behind any release, and consecutive releases may cover overlapping periods, or the same period with later-arriving claims added.