Kenneth J. Kress, MD

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: years in practice and 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 — source not yet found

Adult reconstruction fellowship — Resurgens Orthopaedics, PC. The cited page was read and does not state this fellowship. The claim came from a search result, and a source that states it has not been found yet.

Bio states he completed a fellowship in adult knee reconstruction at Resurgens Orthopaedics, PC after his residency at Hospital for Special Surgery.

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Years in practice

Years in independent practice have not been resolved from a reviewed source.

Joint replacement volume

173 primary hip and knee replacements were published under this NPI in 2024 Original Medicare fee-for-service claims (13 hip, 160 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 Above the 100 the criterion asks Medicare to show, the unpublished half is assumed to at least match it, which is how the 200-a-year criterion is credited: half counted, half assumed.

Current Medicare participation: not determined

CMS published Original Medicare joint-replacement services for this surgeon in 2024, but historical claims do not prove current participation.

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.