EVIDENCE-LED PHYSICIAN DISCOVERY

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Research real Georgia physicians using procedure-category experience, Medicare services, hospital affiliations and source-linked facility evidence—not invented quality scores.

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EXPLORE PHYSICIANS

Knee replacement research

Initial pilot: Georgia • Reported practice geography • Provisional clinical mappings

Multiple CMS evidence sources
This is an evidence exploration tool, not a doctor recommendation. Procedure mappings await clinician review. Results distinguish 2024 Original Medicare HCPCS billing, CMS knee-category experience (including Medicare Advantage), and hospital-level evidence. These counts cannot be summed; neither implies clinical quality. Missing records never establish zero experience. Radius searches include only successfully geocoded practices; distances are straight-line estimates, never driving times.

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EXACTDR APPROACH

Evidence you can inspect

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Find real providers

Identify clinicians through NPPES NPIs, taxonomies, and reported practice locations.

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Separate procedure evidence

Compare 2024 fee-for-service HCPCS billing with separately defined CMS knee-category procedure experience and volume percentiles.

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Inspect hospital context

Check affiliations, hospital-level hip/knee complication estimates, reporting periods and data availability without attributing outcomes to surgeons.

DATA PROVENANCE

Where this information comes from

Each source describes a different aspect of physician discovery. Counts, facility scores and reporting windows must not be merged or presented as individual surgeon quality rankings.

CMS · NPPES

National Provider Registry

October 2026 V2. NPIs, names, credentials, self-reported taxonomies and practice locations. Does not verify licensure, availability, board certification or network status.

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CMS · MEDICARE 2024

Physician & Other Practitioners: Provider and Service

Calendar 2024 Original Medicare fee-for-service HCPCS billing. 27447 and 27446 remain separate. Services are not necessarily unique surgeries, lead-surgeon work or total lifetime experience.

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CMS · CLINICIAN UTILIZATION

Doctors and Clinicians Procedure Experience

October 15, 2026 release. Rolling CMS procedure-category utilization, including Medicare Advantage; published knee category combines total, partial and revision operations. CMS volume percentiles are not quality scores; a 1–10 range is suppressed, not zero.

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CMS · FACILITY AFFILIATIONS

Clinician-to-Facility Associations

July 9, 2026 release. NPI-linked CMS-certified hospital associations. Affiliation does not prove a clinician's privileges, surgery site, patient insurance coverage or current relationship.

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CMS · HOSPITAL COMPLICATIONS

Hip/Knee Hospital Complication Measure

August 13, 2026 release. Risk-standardized combined hip/knee replacement complication estimates at the hospital level; individual facility reporting periods and unavailable values vary. These are not an affiliated surgeon's outcomes.

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CMS · PRO REPORTING

Hospital Patient-Reported Outcomes Reporting

August 13, 2026 release. THA/TKA PRO-PM reporting or participation information where published. Missing and nonnumeric entries are preserved. Do not interpret reporting participation as improvement, recovery or surgical success.

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US CENSUS · GEOGRAPHY

2025 ZCTA Centers & Batch Geocoding

2025 ZIP Code Tabulation Area reference centers plus Census address-range approximations for accepted practice-address matches. Distances are straight-line, not travel times; unmatched practices may be excluded from radius searches.

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Clinical Search Mappings

Provisional research-prototype mappings from knee-replacement consultations to relevant HCPCS codes and orthopaedic taxonomies. These rules are not yet clinician-reviewed and do not imply clinical recommendations.

ExactDr is a research prototype, not medical advice. Verify licensing, accepting-patient status, insurance participation, surgery location, clinical outcomes and availability directly. Published provider, payer and hospital records use different populations, periods and privacy suppressions. An absent observation is not proof of zero activity.

PROVIDER EVIDENCE

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