Knee replacement clinicians in Austin, Texas

CMS lists 46 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 Austin, Texas (details below).

Knee replacement volume

Clinician	Knee replacements billed	Percentile rank
Jacob Manuel, MD	166	98%
Eric Heinrich, MD	130	95%
Joel Hurt, MD	113	93%
Jose Romero, MD	110	93%
David Dodgin, MD	109	93%
Tyler Goldberg, MD	81	87%
Nathan Drummond, MD	70	84%
Christopher Jimenez, MD	60	80%
Joshua Fox, MD	47	73%
Greg Westmoreland, MD	46	72%
David Michel, MD	45	72%
Karl Koenig, MD	44	71%
Vilas Saldanha, MD	41	69%
Erin Dunlap, MD	38	66%
William Abblitt, MD	37	65%
Zachariah Logan, MD	31	60%
Matthew Crozier, MD	30	59%
Sean Gallagher, MD	29	58%
Scott Smith, MD	27	55%
Gregory Catlett, MD	26	54%
Grayson Moore, MD	25	53%
William Schultz, MD	23	51%
Earl Kilbride, MD	19	45%
Frosty Moore, MD	19	45%
Dustin Moore, MD	17	42%
Kevin Bozic, MD	16	41%
Brett Robin, MD	16	41%
Gurpreet Singh, MD	16	41%
Michael Burris, MD	14	37%
Jordan Handcox, MD	11	31%
Carolyn Hyde, MD	11	31%
James Bennett, MD	1-10	31% or below
Robert Blais, MD	1-10	31% or below
Matthew Crawford, MD	1-10	31% or below
Christopher Danney	1-10	31% or below
Peter Garcia, MD	1-10	31% or below
Adam O Brien, MD	1-10	31% or below
Richard Schram, MD	1-10	31% or below
Blake Schultz, MD	1-10	31% or below
John Smoot, MD	1-10	31% or below
Ryan Taylor, MD	1-10	31% or below
Darryl Thomas, MD	1-10	31% or below
Alan Valdovino Gonzalez, MD	1-10	31% or below
Arturo Villarreal, MD	1-10	31% or below
Matthew Wallace, MD	1-10	31% or below
Scott Welsh, 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.

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).