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Knee replacement clinicians in Chicago, Illinois

CMS lists 86 clinicians with a primary specialty of Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, or Hand Surgery who have billed Medicare for at least one knee replacement and practice in Chicago, Illinois (details below).

Knee replacement volume

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 164 98%
Brian Flanagan, MD 148 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%
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%
Sara Wallace, MD 71 84%
Jeffrey Ackerman, MD 69 83%
Linda Suleiman, MD 68 83%
Adam Edelstein, MD 64 82%
Sergey Kachar, DO 58 79%
David Raab, MD 58 79%
Wayne Paprosky, MD 52 76%
Brian McCall, MD 49 74%
Scott Seymour, MD 49 74%
William Thomas, MD 35 64%
Jalaal Shah, DO 34 63%
Gabriel Levi, MD 32 61%
Alexander Savage, MD 31 60%
Ankur Chhadia 28 57%
Richard Hayek, MD 28 57%
Russell Benuck, MD 26 54%
John Pinnello, MD 26 54%
Telly Psaradellis, MD 22 50%
Kristen Barton, MD 21 48%
Michael Hejna 21 48%
Chizitam Ibezim, MD 19 45%
Claire McDaniel, MD 19 45%
Scott Cordes, MD 18 44%
Yasser Farid, MD 17 42%
Ellis Nam, MD 17 42%
Faisal Akram, MD 16 41%
Christopher Mahr, MD 15 39%
Brandon Pardi, MD 15 39%
Samuel Stulberg, MD 15 39%
Micah Richardson, MD 13 35%
Vineet Shah, DO 13 35%
David Beigler, MD 12 33%
Steven Chandler, DO 12 33%
John Lee, MD 12 33%
Terah Hennick, MD 11 31%
Steven Sclamberg, MD 11 31%
Aravind Athiviraham, MD 1-10 31% or below
Vikrant Azad, MD 1-10 31% or below
Tessa Balach, MD 1-10 31% or below
Jay Brooker, MD 1-10 31% or below
Jorge Chahla, MD 1-10 31% or below
Samuel Chmell, MD 1-10 31% or below
Michael Denz, DO 1-10 31% or below
Sujal Desai, DO 1-10 31% or below
Mary Erdman, MD 1-10 31% or below
Michael Fice, MD 1-10 31% or below
David Fitz, MD 1-10 31% or below
Edward Forman, MD 1-10 31% or below
Howard Freedberg, MD 1-10 31% or below
David Garelick, MD 1-10 31% or below
Steven Gitelis, MD 1-10 31% or below
Mark Gonzalez, MD 1-10 31% or below
Kevin Hayek, MD 1-10 31% or below
Daniel Ivankovich, MD 1-10 31% or below
Joseph Karam, MD 1-10 31% or below
Yining Lu, MD 1-10 31% or below
Nishitkumar Patel, MD 1-10 31% or below
Terrance Peabody, MD 1-10 31% or below
Chandrasekhar Sompalli, MD 1-10 31% or below
Brian Velasco 1-10 31% or below
Menar Wahood, DO 1-10 31% or below
Brian Walczak, MD 1-10 31% or below
Bryan Waxman, MD 1-10 31% or below
Meghan Whitmarsh-Brown, MD 1-10 31% or below

Sorted by the number of knee 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.

Reported in previous releases

CMS does not report a knee replacement volume for these clinicians in the August 18, 2026 release. Their pages show figures from earlier releases.

Understanding CMS Data

CMS's "Knee replacement" category combines specific billing codes for knee replacement surgery to calculate the number of times each clinician billed Medicare for a "Knee replacement." These include first-time knee replacement, partial knee replacement, and revision of a previous knee replacement. 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 knee 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).