Hip replacement clinicians in Gastonia, North Carolina

CMS lists 39 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 Gastonia, North Carolina (details below).

Hip replacement volume

Clinician	Hip replacements billed	Percentile rank
Howard Homesley, MD	125	98%
John Mason, MD	104	97%
Kevin Weiss, DO	78	93%
Brian Curtin, MD	71	91%
James Fraser, MD	66	90%
Ronald Singer, MD	66	90%
Keith Fehring, MD	65	90%
Steve Martin, MD	63	89%
Benjamin Wooster	60	88%
Jesse Otero, MD	57	87%
Matthew Duffin, MD	53	86%
Gregory Kurkis, MD	49	84%
Nathan Moore, DO	47	83%
Henry Thomason, MD	37	77%
Shane Tipton	37	77%
Jason Zlotnicki, MD	34	75%
Briggs Ahearn, MD	33	74%
Jess Kirby, MD	30	71%
Bradley Ellison, MD	27	69%
Alexander Boiwka, MD	26	68%
Michael Prater, DO	26	68%
Ryan Bunch, DO	23	65%
Matthew Gullickson, MD	22	63%
Bruce Cox, MD	19	60%
Eric Dilbone, MD	16	55%
Scott Smith, MD	14	52%
Harrison Latimer, MD	13	50%
Ranjan Maitra, MD	12	48%
Laura Blum, MD	1-10	46% or below
Scott Burbank, MD	1-10	46% or below
Brian Delay, MD	1-10	46% or below
Nikkole Haines, MD	1-10	46% or below
Robert Humble, MD	1-10	46% or below
Scott Oneal, MD	1-10	46% or below
Christopher Prato, MD	1-10	46% or below
Michael Seel, MD	1-10	46% or below
Jason Silva, MD	1-10	46% or below
Marc Ward, MD	1-10	46% or below
Malynda Wynn, 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).