Hip replacement clinicians in Durham, North Carolina

CMS lists 43 clinicians with a primary specialty of Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, or Hand Surgery who have billed Medicare for at least one hip replacement and practice in Durham, North Carolina (details below).

Hip replacement volume

Clinician	Hip replacements billed	Percentile rank
Sean Ryan, MD	113	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	89%
Tyler Watters, MD	63	89%
Frank Aluisio, MD	60	88%
Jesse Otero, MD	57	87%
Michael Bolognesi, MD	53	86%
James Karegeannes, MD	53	86%
Scott Eskildsen, MD	52	85%
Andrew Schwartz, MD	44	81%
Michael Merz, 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	63%
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%
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, not by quality or skill. CMS suppresses counts between 1 and 10 to protect patient privacy and publishes the range instead.

Understanding CMS Data

CMS's "Hip replacement" category combines specific billing codes for hip replacement surgery to calculate the number of times each clinician billed Medicare for a "Hip replacement." These include first-time hip replacement, partial hip replacement, and revision of a previous hip replacement. The category does not include every operation that implants a hip prosthesis: CMS leaves out the billing code that covers hip replacement to treat a broken hip, so those operations do not count toward this total. 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 hip replacements a clinician performed during the reporting period. Lastly, only clinicians with a primary specialty of Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, or Hand Surgery (as reported to Medicare) are presented.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (August 18, 2026 release).