Carpal tunnel release prices

Surgeons who do this often — Carpal tunnel release

Ranked by published Medicare surgical volume. Volume is not a quality rating.

These counts come from Medicare fee-for-service claims (2024). They are a floor, not a total: privately insured and Medicare Advantage cases are not counted, and CMS does not publish a clinician's count when fewer than 11 Medicare patients had the procedure. A surgeon who mostly operates on younger patients can be high-volume and barely appear here. Studies have linked higher surgeon volume with fewer complications for some procedures, though not uniformly — this list is not an outcome measure. Ask any surgeon how many they do per year and what their complication rate is.

Indianapolis metro

  • Nicholas Cook, MD

    Hand Surgery · Muncie, IN

    ≥60 Medicare cases

  • Anjan Kaushik

    Hand Surgery · New Castle, IN

    ≥60 Medicare cases

  • Robert Baltera, MD

    Hand Surgery · Indianapolis, IN

    ≥58 Medicare cases

  • Gregory Merrell, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Indianapolis, IN

    ≥58 Medicare cases

  • Toni Lin, MD

    Hand Surgery · Indianapolis, IN

    ≥50 Medicare cases

  • Brandon Smetana, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Indianapolis, IN

    ≥44 Medicare cases

  • Reed Hoyer, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Indianapolis, IN

    ≥42 Medicare cases

  • Lance Rettig, MD

    Hand Surgery · Carmel, IN

    ≥36 Medicare cases

  • Li Chen, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Anderson, IN

    ≥35 Medicare cases

  • F Thomas Kaplan, MD

    Hand Surgery · Indianapolis, IN

    ≥34 Medicare cases

  • Timothy Dicke, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Indianapolis, IN

    ≥31 Medicare cases

  • Christy Kellams, MD

    Hand Surgery · Greenwood, IN

    ≥31 Medicare cases

  • Matthew Walker, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Greenwood, IN

    ≥31 Medicare cases

  • Kelly Graner, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Greenwood, IN

    ≥28 Medicare cases

  • Michael Pannunzio, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Carmel, IN

    ≥28 Medicare cases

Louisville metro

  • Ethan Blackburn, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥64 Medicare cases

  • Michael Nicoson, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥50 Medicare cases

  • Nicholas Foeger, M.D., PH.D.

    Orthopedic Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥47 Medicare cases

  • Luke Robinson, M.D.

    Orthopedic Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥40 Medicare cases

  • Amitava Gupta, MD

    Hand Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥36 Medicare cases

  • Michelle Palazzo, M.D.

    Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥31 Medicare cases

  • Antony Hazel, M.D.

    Orthopedic Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥24 Medicare cases

  • Sunil Thirkannad, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥20 Medicare cases

  • Jeffrey Been, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Elizabethtown, KY

    ≥19 Medicare cases

  • Tuna Ozyurekoglu, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥18 Medicare cases

  • Victor Fehrenbacher, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥14 Medicare cases

  • Marcis Craig, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Elizabethtown, KY

    ≥13 Medicare cases

  • Lauren Fader, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥13 Medicare cases

  • Sanjiv Mehta, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Bardstown, KY

    ≥13 Medicare cases

  • Lauren Protzer, M.D.

    Orthopedic Surgery · Louisville, KY

    ≥13 Medicare cases

Cincinnati metro

  • Daniel Reilly, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Montgomery, OH

    ≥53 Medicare cases

  • Noah Shaftel, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Cincinnati, OH

    ≥53 Medicare cases

  • Matthew Cavo, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Centerville, OH

    ≥50 Medicare cases

  • Craig Willis, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Cincinnati, OH

    ≥49 Medicare cases

  • Christopher Chen, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Cincinnati, OH

    ≥44 Medicare cases

  • Michael Wigton, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Cincinnati, OH

    ≥44 Medicare cases

  • Beth Anne Berrettoni, MD

    Hand Surgery · Dayton, OH

    ≥43 Medicare cases

  • Michael Rymer, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Dayton, OH

    ≥42 Medicare cases

  • Jeffrey Wera, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Florence, KY

    ≥39 Medicare cases

  • Eugene Kim, MD

    Hand Surgery · Dayton, OH

    ≥37 Medicare cases

  • Robert Rhoad, MD

    Hand Surgery · Cincinnati, OH

    ≥37 Medicare cases

  • Safi Faruqui, D.O.

    Hand Surgery · Cincinnati, OH

    ≥35 Medicare cases

  • Benjamin Kleinhenz, MD

    Hand Surgery · Montgomery, OH

    ≥35 Medicare cases

  • Patrick Messerschmitt, MD

    Hand Surgery · Cincinnati, OH

    ≥35 Medicare cases

  • Michael Paczas, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Mason, OH

    ≥33 Medicare cases

Columbus metro

  • Marlo Van Steyn, MD

    Hand Surgery · Upper Arlington, OH

    ≥89 Medicare cases

  • Desmond Stutzman, D.O.

    Hand Surgery · Columbus, OH

    ≥78 Medicare cases

  • Brent Bickel, MD

    Hand Surgery · Gahanna, OH

    ≥46 Medicare cases

  • Adam Martin, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Upper Arlington, OH

    ≥46 Medicare cases

  • Michael Rerko, MD

    Hand Surgery · Upper Arlington, OH

    ≥43 Medicare cases

  • James Popp, MD

    Hand Surgery · Gahanna, OH

    ≥40 Medicare cases

  • Raymond Wurapa, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Gahanna, OH

    ≥38 Medicare cases

  • Ryan Schmucker, M.D.

    Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Columbus, OH

    ≥19 Medicare cases

  • Daniel Quinn, M.D.

    Hand Surgery · Columbus, OH

    ≥18 Medicare cases

  • Stephen Berling, M.D.

    Orthopedic Surgery · Hilliard, OH

    ≥17 Medicare cases

  • Kevin Ouweleen, MD

    Orthopedic Surgery · Newark, OH

    ≥17 Medicare cases

  • Steven Priano, M.D.

    Orthopedic Surgery · Lancaster, OH

    ≥16 Medicare cases

  • Ronald Brown

    Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Columbus, OH

    ≥14 Medicare cases

  • Daniel Buchan, D.O

    Orthopedic Surgery · Columbus, OH

    ≥14 Medicare cases

  • Arthur Kumpf, MD

    Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Marion, OH

    ≥14 Medicare cases

Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners — by Provider and Service (2024 claims), retrieved 2026-07-15. Individual clinicians only; NPIs verified against the CMS file — nothing here is estimated or inferred.