Ben Wehrli, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Palm Desert, CANPI 1013151331
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 291 payments — averaging $1320.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC$160K
- Trilliant Surgical LLC.$83K
- Stryker$64K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$41K
- Encore Medical, LP$13K
- Fusion Orthopedics, LLC.$12K
- plus $11K from 22 others
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 37 | $160,013 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 40 | $83,129 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 76 | $63,995 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 34 | $40,830 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 9 | $13,208 |
| Fusion Orthopedics, LLC. | 6 | $11,925 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 10 | $7,288 |
| Nevro Corp. | 23 | $1,954 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 6 | $699 |
| Globus Medical | 10 | $292 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $171 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 6 | $170 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $167 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $82 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $60 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $55 |
| Amgen | 3 | $48 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $37 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $24 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Axogen | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$384,384 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Palm Desert
- John ZimmermanBakersfield$4.6M
- Eric GizaSacramento$3.7M
- Thomas HarrisPasadena$3M
- Felix SigalLos Angeles$2.2M
- Thomas ChangSanta Rosa$2.1M
- Michael CoughlinSan Francisco$1.6M
- Vladimir ZeetserEncino$677K
- Jason NowakRedding$526K
- Candice BradyCamarillo$462K
- Andrew HsuOrange$456K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.