Hip replacement volume in Durham, North Carolina

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

Clinicians

Clinician	Hip replacements billed	Percentile rank
Sean Ryan, MD	112	98%
Bradley Vaughn, MD	81	94%
John Chiavetta, MD	70	91%
Scott Hannum, MD	70	91%
Samuel Wellman, MD	69	91%
Adam Brekke, MD	64	90%
Tyler Watters, MD	63	89%
Frank Aluisio, MD	59	88%
Jesse Otero, MD	57	87%
Michael Bolognesi, MD	53	86%
Scott Eskildsen, MD	52	85%
James Karegeannes, MD	52	85%
Andrew Schwartz, MD	44	81%
Michael Merz, MD	40	79%
Robert Wyker, MD	40	79%
Richard Rutherford, MD	39	78%
Michael Marushack, MD	38	78%
Michael Ruffolo, MD	38	78%
Henry Thomason, MD	37	77%
Michael Ransone, MD	35	76%
Edward Lilly, MD	34	75%
Thorsten Seyler, MD	32	73%
Werner Brooks, MD	31	72%
Christopher Daley, MD	28	70%
Tally Eddings	27	69%
Daniel Albright, MD	25	67%
Stephen Struble, MD	24	66%
Samuel Stanley, MD	22	64%
Steven Olson, MD	21	62%
Brett Gilbert, MD	20	61%
Timothy Harris, MD	20	61%
Thomas Kelso, MD	19	60%
William Jiranek, MD	14	52%
David Jones, MD	13	50%
Arvind Narayanan, MD	13	50%
Michael Comstock, MD	11	46%
John Poggi, MD	11	46%
Brian Brigman, MD	1-10	46% or below
Malcolm Debaun, MD	1-10	46% or below
William Eward, MD	1-10	46% or below
James Hooten, MD	1-10	46% or below
Justin Kauk, MD	1-10	46% or below
Christpher Klifto, MD	1-10	46% or below
John Neal, MD	1-10	46% or below
Christian Pean, 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; 8 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).