Kerry S. Hale, MD

Saint Peter Medical Group · Helena, MT 59601-4928

AAHKS member

Fellowship: Paediatric orthopaedic surgery — Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland, 2009¹
In practice: In practice since 2009
2024 Medicare: 168 joint replacements²
Medicare: Accepted
AAHKS: Member — directory-listed as of 2026-08-18

1 sphealth.org · 2026-08-30 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: hip and knee replacement fellowship training 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

Fellowship verified

Documented fellowship is Paediatric orthopaedic surgery, not hip and knee replacement. Read on the cited page.

The St. Peter's Health profile states "advanced training as an orthopaedic pediatric surgeon through a fellowship program at the Starship Children's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand (2008-2009)", after a Mayo Clinic residency from 2003 to 2008. No joint replacement fellowship is named anywhere on the page, though the same page describes hip and knee replacement as the current focus of the practice and CMS records 168 replacements.

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Years in practice

In practice since 2009

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Joint replacement volume

168 primary hip and knee replacements were published under this NPI in 2024 Original Medicare fee-for-service claims (69 hip, 99 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 Above the 100 the criterion asks Medicare to show, the unpublished half is assumed to at least match it, which is how the 200-a-year criterion is credited: half counted, half assumed.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: St Peters Health · Helena, MT 59601.

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?

A surgeon may correct their own page. Sign in as a physician, confirm the NPI on this record, and verify with a code texted to your cell phone. You can then correct the practice, fellowship and start-year fields, or ask for the page to come down. Corrections appear here as stated by you, beside what the public sources show.

Report an error in this record

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This is a documented record, not a rating or a recommendation. It carries no stars, scores, ranks or badges. Every fact names its source and the date it was read; a fact nobody has documented reads “not yet documented,” which is a gap in the record and never a finding about the surgeon. Whether a surgeon is right for you is decided in an examination, by you and them.

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.