Varicose vein ablation clinicians in El Paso, Texas

CMS lists 32 clinicians who have billed Medicare for at least one varicose vein removal procedure and practice in El Paso, Texas (details below).

Varicose vein ablation volume

Clinician	Varicose vein removal procedures billed	Percentile rank
Luis Mata, MD	584	98%
Gilbert Aidinian, MD	583	98%
Pablo Martinez, MD	433	96%
Joseph Furlong, MD	266	93%
Carlos Gutierrez, MD	122	86%
Anwar Gerges, MD	114	86%
Roberto Ramirez, MD	109	85%
Jorge Sarmiento, MD	101	84%
Emmanuel Anekwe, MD	93	83%
Atur Kasha, DO	89	83%
Kevin Stewart, MD	89	83%
Felice Bruno, MD	59	77%
Gethin Williams, MD	45	73%
Michael Deluca, MD	40	71%
Luis Garza-Arreola, MD	30	65%
Ali Nasur, MD	24	61%
Melhem Ghaleb, MD	17	54%
Juan Taveras, MD	14	50%
Jerry Miller, MD	12	47%
David Turbay, MD	12	47%
Waseem Shami, MD	11	45%
Arya Bagherpour, DO	1-10	45% or below
Michael Gutierrez, MD	1-10	45% or below
Abdur Jamal, MD	1-10	45% or below
Muhammad Khan, MD	1-10	45% or below
Paul Lajos, MD	1-10	45% or below
Ruben Montanez, MD	1-10	45% or below
Venkatachalam Mulukutla, MD	1-10	45% or below
Manuel Padilla, MD	1-10	45% or below
Umang Patel, MD	1-10	45% or below
Mohammad Raja, MD	1-10	45% or below
Alexander Shestopalov, MD	1-10	45% or below

Sorted by the number of varicose vein removal 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.

Reported in previous releases

CMS does not report a varicose vein removal volume for these clinicians in the October 2, 2026 release. Their pages show figures from earlier releases.

Mohamed Taha, MD Last reported August 18, 2026

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).