Hip replacement clinicians in Tyler, Texas

CMS lists 41 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 Tyler, Texas (details below).

Hip replacement volume

Clinician	Hip replacements billed	Percentile rank
Kenneth Kaminski, MD	145	99%
Andrew Hester, MD	118	98%
Seth Christensen, DO	56	87%
Hayden Joseph, MD	39	78%
Joseph Conflitti, MD	35	76%
Steven Overturf, MD	33	74%
Justin Klimisch, MD	29	71%
Christopher Meltsakos, MD	29	71%
Thomas Volatile, MD	29	71%
Stephen Littlejohn, MD	28	70%
William Phillips, MD	28	70%
Cody Covington, MD	21	62%
Jesse Delee, MD	19	60%
Dennis Devinney, MD	17	57%
Matthew Negem, DO	13	50%
Charles Grooters, MD	12	48%
James Harris, MD	12	48%
Austin McPhilamy, MD	12	48%
Cody Anderson, MD	1-10	46% or below
Azael Arizpe, MD	1-10	46% or below
Richard Barber, MD	1-10	46% or below
Kurt Barger, DO	1-10	46% or below
Alireza Behboudi, DO	1-10	46% or below
Corey Bindner, MD	1-10	46% or below
Howard Brown, MD	1-10	46% or below
Jon-Michael Cline, DO	1-10	46% or below
Douglas Duncan, MD	1-10	46% or below
Michael Giovan, MD	1-10	46% or below
Richard Hilborn, MD	1-10	46% or below
Mudassar Khan, DO	1-10	46% or below
Alexander Kreines, DO	1-10	46% or below
Andrew Mikeska, DO	1-10	46% or below
Steven Porter, MD	1-10	46% or below
Ian Ratheal, MD	1-10	46% or below
Jay Stanley, MD	1-10	46% or below
Arthur Strahan Jr, MD	1-10	46% or below
Samer Tawakkol, MD	1-10	46% or below
Brandon Tinkler, MD	1-10	46% or below
Trevor Wait, MD	1-10	46% or below
John Walker, MD	1-10	46% or below
Harold Weems, 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).