Knee replacement volume in Chicago, Illinois

90 clinicians CMS lists under Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, or Hand Surgery billed at least one knee replacement in Chicago in the June 2026 release.

Clinicians

Clinician	Knee replacements billed	Percentile rank
Scott Sporer, MD	280	99%
Denis Nam, MD	241	99%
Vasili Karas	235	99%
John Bottros, MD	199	99%
Michael Orourke, MD	189	98%
Omar Behery	170	98%
John Daniels, MD	165	98%
Frank Bohnenkamp, MD	163	98%
Brian Flanagan, MD	147	97%
David Manning, MD	129	95%
Sean Sutphen, DO	126	95%
Hue Luu, MD	125	95%
Mark Oyer, MD	124	95%
Jeffrey Goldstein, MD	121	94%
Kevin Hardt, MD	111	93%
Peter Thadani, MD	103	92%
Lalit Puri, MD	98	91%
Alexander Tauchen, MD	89	89%
Michael Harvey, MD	88	89%
Elizabeth Terhune, MD	77	86%
Jeremiah Pflederer, MD	75	85%
Van Stamos, MD	73	85%
Matthew Squire, MD	72	84%
Jeffrey Ackerman, MD	69	84%
Sara Wallace, MD	69	84%
Linda Suleiman, MD	68	83%
Adam Edelstein, MD	64	82%
Sergey Kachar, DO	58	79%
David Raab, MD	58	79%
James Bresch, MD	57	79%
Wayne Paprosky, MD	52	76%
Brian Mccall, MD	49	74%
Scott Seymour, MD	49	74%
Tad Gerlinger, MD	48	74%
William Thomas, MD	35	64%
Jalaal Shah, DO	33	62%
Gabriel Levi, MD	32	61%
Alexander Savage, MD	31	60%
Ankur Chhadia	28	57%
Richard Hayek, MD	28	57%
Russell Benuck, MD	26	55%
John Pinnello, MD	26	55%
Telly Psaradellis, MD	22	50%
Michael Hejna	21	49%
Kristen Barton, MD	20	47%
David Christian, MD	20	47%
Chizitam Ibezim, MD	19	46%
Claire Mcdaniel, MD	19	46%
Scott Cordes, MD	18	44%
Yasser Farid, MD	17	43%
Ellis Nam, MD	17	43%
Faisal Akram, MD	16	41%
Brandon Pardi, MD	16	41%
Christopher Mahr, MD	15	39%
Samuel Stulberg, MD	15	39%
Micah Richardson, MD	13	36%
Vineet Shah, DO	13	36%
Kevin Becker, MD	12	34%
David Beigler, MD	12	34%
Steven Chandler, DO	12	34%
John Lee, MD	12	34%
Terah Hennick, MD	11	32%
Steven Sclamberg, MD	11	32%
Aravind Athiviraham, MD	1-10	32% or below
Vikrant Azad, MD	1-10	32% or below
Tessa Balach, MD	1-10	32% or below
Jay Brooker, MD	1-10	32% or below
Jorge Chahla, MD	1-10	32% or below
Samuel Chmell, MD	1-10	32% or below
Michael Denz, DO	1-10	32% or below
Sujal Desai, DO	1-10	32% or below
Mary Erdman, MD	1-10	32% or below
Michael Fice, MD	1-10	32% or below
David Fitz, MD	1-10	32% or below
Edward Forman, MD	1-10	32% or below
Howard Freedberg, MD	1-10	32% or below
David Garelick, MD	1-10	32% or below
Steven Gitelis, MD	1-10	32% or below
Mark Gonzalez, MD	1-10	32% or below
Kevin Hayek, MD	1-10	32% or below
Daniel Ivankovich, MD	1-10	32% or below
Joseph Karam, MD	1-10	32% or below
Yining Lu, MD	1-10	32% or below
Nishitkumar Patel, MD	1-10	32% or below
Terrance Peabody, MD	1-10	32% or below
Chandrasekhar Sompalli, MD	1-10	32% or below
Brian Velasco	1-10	32% or below
Menar Wahood, DO	1-10	32% or below
Brian Walczak, MD	1-10	32% or below
Meghan Whitmarsh-Brown, MD	1-10	32% or below

Sorted by the number of knee replacements billed to Medicare, highest first. This is an ordering of one published figure, not a ranking of quality, skill, or outcomes. CMS suppresses counts of 10 and below to protect patient privacy and publishes the range instead, which is not a count of zero; 27 of these clinicians carry that range.

Understanding CMS Data

These figures are based on knee replacements billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage as reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in their June 2026 data release. The CMS data doesn't include procedures performed for patients who have other health care coverage (e.g., commercially insured, self pay, or VA). Furthermore, CMS sums up specific billing codes that cover first-time knee replacement, partial knee replacement, and revision of a previous knee replacement to calculate the total number of knee replacements. Billing variation and coding errors could potentially affect CMS's data. Therefore, the knee replacement volume data reported by CMS may be higher or lower than the actual total knee replacements performed by a clinician. We share the total knee replacement figures for the clinicians CMS lists under Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, or Hand Surgery as CMS publishes them, without alteration.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (June 2026 release).