Hip replacement clinicians in Rochester, New York

CMS lists 34 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 Rochester, New York (details below).

Hip replacement volume

Clinician	Hip replacements billed	Percentile rank
Timothy Wagner, MD	218	99%
Christopher Drinkwater, MD	106	97%
James Foster, MD	106	97%
John Ginnetti, MD	99	97%
Thomas Myers, MD	99	97%
Stephen Casey	98	96%
Michael Klotz, MD	91	96%
Benjamin Ricciardi, MD	88	95%
Nathan Kaplan, MD	86	95%
Rishi Balkissoon, MD	68	91%
Matthew Bessette, MD	61	89%
Mackenzie Neumaier, MD	58	87%
Nicholas Valente, MD	55	86%
Robert Meyer, MD	52	85%
Everett Weiss, MD	51	85%
Waleed Al-Hardan, MD	47	83%
Rola Rashid, MD	47	83%
Noah Joseph, MD	41	80%
Anthony Judice, DO	38	78%
Jonathan Gabel, MD	33	74%
Thomas Sajda, MD	30	71%
Gregory Finkbeiner, MD	29	71%
Michael Colucci, MD	28	70%
Kevin Okeefe	23	65%
Raymond Stefanich, MD	21	62%
John Gorczyca, MD	1-10	46% or below
Steven Karnyski, MD	1-10	46% or below
John Ketz, MD	1-10	46% or below
Susan McDowell, MD	1-10	46% or below
Joshua Olsen, MD	1-10	46% or below
Benjamin Plucknette, DO	1-10	46% or below
Steven Posnick, MD	1-10	46% or below
Sarah Rizzo, MD	1-10	46% or below
Justin Vaida, 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).