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Compare the published Medicare service mix of Miguel Puig Palomar, MD with clinicians in the same registry specialty: Thoracic Surgery (CMS).

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2024 published service data · 307 eligible profiles compared. Similarity describes billing patterns, not quality, outcomes, or suitability for your care.

David G Rabkin, MD

Cardiac Surgery · Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Los Angeles, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • New patient office or other outpatient visit with low level of medical decision making, if using time, 30 minutes or more (99203)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
75%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Michael J. Soltero, M.D.

Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Northridge, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • Initial hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 40 minutes (99221)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
60%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Minh Quan Vu, MD

General Surgery · Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Stanford, CA

Shared published services
2 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • New patient office or other outpatient visit with low level of medical decision making, if using time, 30 minutes or more (99203)
60%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Rosario Floridia, M.D.

Cardiac Surgery · Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Loma Linda, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • New patient office or other outpatient visit with low level of medical decision making, if using time, 30 minutes or more (99203)
  • Coronary artery bypass using artery graft, 1 graft (33533)
58%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Sabrina Evans, M.D.

Cardiac Surgery · Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Sacramento, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • New patient office or other outpatient visit with low level of medical decision making, if using time, 30 minutes or more (99203)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
57%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Roderick K. Yasuda, MD

Cardiac Surgery · Thoracic Surgery · Vascular Surgery (CMS) · Northridge, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • Initial hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 40 minutes (99221)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
57%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Aamir S Shah, MD

Cardiac Surgery · Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Thousand Oaks, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • New patient office or other outpatient visit with low level of medical decision making, if using time, 30 minutes or more (99203)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
56%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Raffi A Kotoyan, MD

Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Northridge, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • Initial hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 40 minutes (99221)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
55%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Aziz S. Ghaly, MBBCH (MD)

Cardiac Surgery · Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · West Hollywood, CA

Shared published services
2 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
55%Service-mix similarityView profile →

John Benjamin Degraft-Johnson, M.D.,

General Surgery · Thoracic Surgery · Vascular Surgery (CMS) · Modesto, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • New patient office or other outpatient visit with low level of medical decision making, if using time, 30 minutes or more (99203)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
  • Coronary artery bypass using artery graft, 1 graft (33533)
54%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Azad Salar Karim, MD

Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Sacramento, CA

Shared published services
3 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • Harvest of vein using an endoscope (33508)
  • Coronary artery bypass using artery graft, 1 graft (33533)
52%Service-mix similarityView profile →

Andrew Philip Rabenstein, M.D.

Thoracic Surgery (CMS) · Fountain Valley, CA

Shared published services
2 shared services · view billing descriptions
  • Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery (33361)
  • New patient office or other outpatient visit with low level of medical decision making, if using time, 30 minutes or more (99203)
52%Service-mix similarityView profile →
How this comparison works

We use the same calendar year of CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners data for both providers. Published non-drug service counts are combined by HCPCS code across places of service. We apply log(1 + count), normalize the vectors, and compare them using cosine similarity.

Candidates share the reference provider’s current NPPES primary taxonomy and match the location you enter. We examine up to 500 candidates in NPI order, then show up to 12 with the highest positive similarity within that set. The score is not a percentile, medical recommendation, or prediction. Suppressed services are not estimated. Medicare fee-for-service data does not describe a provider’s entire practice.

Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service : 2024-12-01 · Published May 21, 2026.