Hip replacement volume in Gastonia, North Carolina

43 clinicians CMS lists under Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, or Hand Surgery billed at least one hip replacement in Gastonia in the June 2026 release.

Clinicians

Clinician	Hip replacements billed	Percentile rank
Howard Homesley, MD	125	99%
John Mason, MD	104	97%
Kevin Weiss, DO	78	93%
Philip Fontenot, MD	73	92%
Brian Curtin, MD	71	92%
James Fraser, MD	66	90%
Ronald Singer, MD	66	90%
Keith Fehring, MD	65	90%
Steve Martin, MD	63	89%
Benjamin Wooster	59	88%
Jesse Otero, MD	57	87%
Matthew Duffin, MD	53	86%
Gregory Kurkis, MD	49	84%
Nathan Moore, DO	47	83%
Henry Thomason, MD	37	77%
Shane Tipton	37	77%
Jason Zlotnicki, MD	34	75%
Briggs Ahearn, MD	33	74%
Paul Lichstein, MD	31	72%
Jess Kirby, MD	30	71%
Bradley Ellison, MD	27	69%
Alexander Boiwka, MD	26	68%
Michael Prater, DO	26	68%
Ryan Bunch, DO	23	65%
Matthew Gullickson, MD	22	64%
Bruce Cox, MD	19	60%
Eric Dilbone, MD	16	55%
Harrison Latimer, MD	13	50%
Scott Smith, MD	13	50%
Ranjan Maitra, MD	12	48%
Laura Blum, MD	1-10	46% or below
Scott Burbank, MD	1-10	46% or below
Brian Delay, MD	1-10	46% or below
Brad Freidinger	1-10	46% or below
Nikkole Haines, MD	1-10	46% or below
Robert Humble, MD	1-10	46% or below
Robert Mcbride, MD	1-10	46% or below
Scott Oneal, MD	1-10	46% or below
Christopher Prato, MD	1-10	46% or below
Michael Seel, MD	1-10	46% or below
Jason Silva, MD	1-10	46% or below
Marc Ward, MD	1-10	46% or below
Malynda Wynn, MD	1-10	46% or below

Sorted by the number of hip 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; 13 of these clinicians carry that range.

Understanding CMS Data

These figures are based on hip 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 hip replacement, partial hip replacement, and revision of a previous hip replacement to calculate the total number of hip replacements. It does not include every operation in which a hip prosthesis is implanted: replacements performed to treat a broken hip are counted under a billing code CMS leaves out of this category. Billing variation and coding errors could potentially affect CMS's data. Therefore, the hip replacement volume data reported by CMS may be higher or lower than the actual total hip replacements performed by a clinician. We share the total hip 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).