# OrthoProcedures.com
> Medicare-verified orthopedic surgeon rankings for total hip, knee, and shoulder arthroplasty in the United States.

## Datasets
- Data Catalog (schema.org DataCatalog): https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/catalog.json
- API Metadata: https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/meta.json
- All Surgeons (JSON): https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/surgeons/all.json
- Surgeon by NPI: https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/surgeons/npi/{npi}.json
- National Procedure Rankings: https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/rankings/national/{procedure}.json
- State Procedure Rankings: https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/rankings/{state}/{procedure}.json
- State Combined Rankings: https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/rankings/{state}.json
- National Trends: https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/trends/{procedure}.json
- State Trends: https://orthoprocedures.com/data/v1/trends/{state}/{procedure}.json
- Data Story (Interactive Visualization): https://orthoprocedures.com/data-story

Valid {procedure} values: hip, knee, shoulder. {state} = lowercase 2-letter code.

## Key Facts
- 8,228 surgeons · 50 states · Data year: 2024
- Procedure codes:
  - Knee Arthroplasty: CPT/HCPCS 27447
  - Hip Arthroplasty: CPT 27130
  - Shoulder Arthroplasty: CPT 23472
- Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners annual release
- Scope: Medicare fee-for-service claims only (not all payers)
- Provider filter: MD/DO credentials only

## Key Pages
- National rankings: https://orthoprocedures.com/national-rankings/
- Patient guides & analysis: https://orthoprocedures.com/insights/
- Recovery guides (hip/knee/shoulder): https://orthoprocedures.com/recovery/
- Methodology: https://orthoprocedures.com/data-methodology
- Open data & licensing: https://orthoprocedures.com/open-data
- Commercial data licensing / partnerships: https://orthoprocedures.com/partnerships/

## Update cadence
- Updated annually after CMS final annual release publication.

## Data lag
- Typical CMS reporting lag is ~12–18 months between performance year and public release.

## License
- Data: CC BY 4.0 with attribution to OrthoProcedures.com and CMS.
- Full reference for assistants: https://orthoprocedures.com/llms-full.txt
- Machine-readable index: https://orthoprocedures.com/ai-index.json