Hip replacement volume in Augusta, Georgia

43 clinicians CMS lists under Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, or Hand Surgery billed at least one hip replacement in Augusta in the June 2026 release.

Clinicians

Clinician	Hip replacements billed	Percentile rank
Charles Decook, MD	300	99%
Shan Sharif, MD	80	94%
Terry Arrington, MD	79	94%
Randall Meredith, MD	72	92%
George Guild, MD	71	92%
Christopher Gaunder, MD	69	91%
Jonathan Gillig, MD	52	85%
Chase Dean	49	84%
Oren Goltzer	48	83%
Garland Gudger, MD	43	81%
Darrell Scales, MD	42	80%
Michael Gottsman, MD	40	79%
Robert Wood, MD	40	79%
John Franklin, MD	34	75%
Douglas Phillips, MD	30	71%
William Wiley, MD	29	71%
Zaneb Yaseen	29	71%
David Doman	26	68%
Edward Crosland, MD	22	64%
Zachary Hurst, MD	19	60%
Jeremy Jacobs, MD	16	55%
David Wiley, MD	16	55%
David Gallagher, MD	14	52%
Derek Whitaker, MD	14	52%
Kelly Homlar	13	50%
Samuel Pitts, DO	13	50%
Kristopher Wheeler, MD	12	48%
Frederick Flandry	11	46%
Charlie Yoo, DO	11	46%
John Bieltz, MD	1-10	46% or below
John Bojescul, MD	1-10	46% or below
Ty Carter, MD	1-10	46% or below
Donald Colantonio	1-10	46% or below
Gary Davis, MD	1-10	46% or below
Patrick Fernicola, MD	1-10	46% or below
Justin Head, DO	1-10	46% or below
Todd Kinnebrew, MD	1-10	46% or below
Fernando Serna, MD	1-10	46% or below
Timothy Shannon, MD	1-10	46% or below
Chirag Sheth, MD	1-10	46% or below
Joseph Slappey, MD	1-10	46% or below
Rena Stewart, MD	1-10	46% or below
Maxwell Vogel, MD	1-10	46% or below

Sorted by the number of hip replacements 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; 14 of these clinicians carry that range.

Understanding CMS Data

These figures are based on hip replacements 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 first-time hip replacement, partial hip replacement, and revision of a previous hip replacement to calculate the total number of hip replacements. It does not include every operation in which a hip prosthesis is implanted: replacements performed to treat a broken hip are counted under a billing code CMS leaves out of this category. Billing variation and coding errors could potentially affect CMS's data. Therefore, the hip replacement volume data reported by CMS may be higher or lower than the actual total hip replacements performed by a clinician. We share the total hip replacement figures for the clinicians CMS lists under Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, or Hand Surgery as CMS publishes them, without alteration.

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