Hip replacement clinicians in Nashville, Tennessee

CMS lists 72 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 Nashville, Tennessee (details below).

Hip replacement volume

Clinician	Hip replacements billed	Percentile rank
Jefferson Morrison, MD	135	99%
Conrad Ivie, MD	115	98%
William Carpenter, MD	95	96%
Jeffrey Hodrick, MD	93	96%
William Kurtz, MD	87	95%
Justin Langan, MD	87	95%
Paul Yau, MD	79	93%
Jonathan Cornelius, MD	78	93%
Stephen Engstrom, MD	77	93%
Robert Otto	71	91%
Philip Karpos, MD	67	90%
Lucas Burton, MD	61	89%
Matthew Christie, MD	61	89%
Brian Dierckman, MD	61	89%
John Martin, MD	60	88%
Stuart Smith, MD	60	88%
Tania Ferguson, MD	58	87%
Dustin Hamilton, MD	58	87%
Andrew Poole, MD	57	87%
Ryan Dabbs, MD	54	86%
Gregory Polkowski, MD	54	86%
William Shirley, MD	54	86%
Harold Cates, MD	51	85%
Joseph Wade, MD	51	85%
Gregory Raab, MD	49	84%
Russell McKissick	37	77%
Michael Christie, MD	36	76%
Joshua Lawrenz, MD	36	76%
Zachary Wuthrich, MD	35	76%
Nathaniel Williams	34	75%
Wesley Mayes, MD	28	70%
Ginger Holt, MD	25	67%
Hunter Hood, MD	25	67%
Christopher Cook, MD	23	65%
Paul Grutter, MD	23	65%
James Miller	19	60%
John Wilson, MD	19	60%
Joseph Niland, MD	18	58%
Jeffrey Peterson, DO	18	58%
Tiffany Feltman Meals, DO	17	57%
Kurtis Kowalski, MD	15	54%
David Deboer, MD	14	52%
Brandon Downs, MD	14	52%
Calvin Dyer, MD	13	50%
Daniel Johnson, MD	12	48%
Joanne Baird, MD	1-10	46% or below
Courtney Baker, MD	1-10	46% or below
Michael Barlow, DO	1-10	46% or below
Katherine Buesser, MD	1-10	46% or below
Paul Crook, MD	1-10	46% or below
Ilexa Flagstad, MD	1-10	46% or below
Michelle Hertzberg	1-10	46% or below
Erin Hofer, MD	1-10	46% or below
Charles Hopkins, MD	1-10	46% or below
Christopher Jones, MD	1-10	46% or below
Sean Kaminsky, MD	1-10	46% or below
Brian Koch, MD	1-10	46% or below
Nathaniel Koutlas, MD	1-10	46% or below
Robert Landsberg, MD	1-10	46% or below
Nathaniel Lempert, MD	1-10	46% or below
Robert Lowe, MD	1-10	46% or below
Amanda Martin, DO	1-10	46% or below
William Mayfield, MD	1-10	46% or below
Scott McCall, MD	1-10	46% or below
Mitul Patel, MD	1-10	46% or below
Damon Petty, MD	1-10	46% or below
Mariel Rickert, MD	1-10	46% or below
Jonathan Shaver, MD	1-10	46% or below
Matthew Sugalski, MD	1-10	46% or below
Michel Taylor, MD	1-10	46% or below
Marc Tressler, MD	1-10	46% or below
John Weldy, 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).