James M. Hartford, MD

Palo Alto Center · Palo Alto, CA 94301-2302

AAHKS member

Fellowship: Adult reconstruction — Stanford Hospital¹
In practice: About 31 years (estimated)
2024 Medicare: 198 joint replacements²
Medicare: Accepted
AAHKS: Member — directory-listed as of 2026-08-18

1 sutterhealth.org · 2026-08-28 2 CMS claims — a lower bound

What this record establishes

The authenticated AAHKS directory lists this surgeon as a member, and CMS published hip or knee replacement services under this surgeon's NPI.

What still needs verification: board certification. An unmet criterion is never a finding against a surgeon: CMS publishes only the Medicare half of a practice, and a credential nobody has documented is unknown, not absent.

How each fact was established

Joint-replacement fellowship verified

Adult reconstruction fellowship — Stanford Hospital. Read on the cited page.

Dartmouth Medical School Internship : Harvard New England Deaconess Hospital Residency : Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Fellowship : Stanford University Hospital, Adult Reconstruction Board Certifications Orthopedic Surgery - Board Certified My Experience Clinical Expertise Procedur

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Years in practice

About 31 years, estimated from training dates. The estimate allows six years for residency and fellowship, which is the shortest path there is, so the real figure may be lower.

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Joint replacement volume

198 primary hip and knee replacements were published under this NPI in 2024 Original Medicare fee-for-service claims (119 hip, 79 knee). That is a lower bound: cash and commercially insured cases are published nowhere, for anyone. Above the 100 the criterion asks Medicare to show, the unpublished half is assumed to at least match it, which is how the 200-a-year criterion is credited: half counted, half assumed.

Medicare participation: accepts Medicare assignment

The CMS Doctors & Clinicians file reports that this clinician accepts the Medicare-approved amount as payment in full.

CMS Medicare-listed practice: Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · Palo Alto, CA 94301.

AAHKS membership

Listed in the authenticated AAHKS member directory as Fellow Member.

Board certification

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery certification is not covered by the retained dataset and has not been checked.

Is this your record?

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Sources

What this record stands on

Consolidated dataset generated 2026-08-24; CMS participation data updated July 31, 2026; each read source carries its own date above.