Cataract surgery volume in Aurora, Colorado

34 clinicians CMS lists under Ophthalmology billed at least one cataract surgery in Aurora in the June 2026 release.

Clinicians

Clinician	Cataract surgeries billed	Percentile rank
Cara Capitena Young, MD	433	88%
Michael Taravella, MD	365	84%
Richard Davidson, MD	357	84%
Clayton Pennington, MD	275	77%
Leonard Seibold, MD	260	75%
Michael Wildes, MD	240	73%
Justin Coco, DO	218	70%
Monica Ertel, MD	190	66%
Mina Pantcheva, MD	159	61%
Jeffrey Soohoo, MD	104	51%
Kim Burrell, DO	58	40%
Ronald Wise, MD	57	40%
James Burcham, MD	44	36%
Michael Chen, MD	41	35%
William Roberts, MD	23	28%
Meredith Spitz, MD	16	24%
Darren Gregory, MD	15	24%
Jessica Kraker, MD	15	24%
Travis Redd, MD	12	21%
Lama Assi, MD	1-10	21% or below
Ross Chod, MD	1-10	21% or below
Marilyn Dougherty, MD	1-10	21% or below
Christopher Gelston, MD	1-10	21% or below
Michael Jansen, MD	1-10	21% or below
Zachary Koretz, MD	1-10	21% or below
Niranjan Manoharan, MD	1-10	21% or below
Marc Mathias, MD	1-10	21% or below
Scott Oliver, MD	1-10	21% or below
Jeffrey Olson, MD	1-10	21% or below
Daniel Ozzello, MD	1-10	21% or below
Alan Palestine, MD	1-10	21% or below
Brittany Perzia, MD	1-10	21% or below
Jesse Smith, MD	1-10	21% or below
Jared Sokol, MD	1-10	21% or below

Sorted by the number of cataract surgeries 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; 15 of these clinicians carry that range.

Understanding CMS Data

These figures are based on cataract surgeries billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage as reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in their June 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 that cover lens replacement surgery and YAG laser capsulotomy to calculate the total number of cataract surgeries. Billing variation and coding errors could potentially affect CMS's data. Therefore, the cataract surgery volume data reported by CMS may be higher or lower than the actual total cataract surgeries performed by a clinician. We share the total cataract surgery figures for the clinicians CMS lists under Ophthalmology as CMS publishes them, without alteration.

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