Has Benjamin Bissell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,361 in general payments to Benjamin Bissell, MD across 70 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Benjamin Bissell, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Benjamin Bissell, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Benjamin Bissell, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Dakota Dunes, SDNPI 1265582712

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,915 of the $7,361 with a category attached, or 66.8%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 38.4% of the total.

$7,361in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $105.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$3K
Conetic Solutions, Inc.$2K
Stryker$2K
RSW Medical Company, Inc.$82
Vericel Corporation$29
Zimmer Biomet$19

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,91567%
Food & beverage$2,44733%

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
Arthrex	34	$2,829
Conetic Solutions, Inc.	13	$2,226
Stryker	18	$2,177
RSW Medical Company, Inc.	3	$82
Vericel Corporation	1	$29
Zimmer Biomet	1	$19

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

MAKO$1,717

How this compares

$7,361 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 92 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$151,700

Medicare patients

278

Services billed

1,296

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Celecoxib	14	$450
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	31	$248
Oxycodone Hcl	25	$151
Tramadol Hcl	46	$109
Amoxicillin	89	$60
Cephalexin	17	$35
Clindamycin Hcl	18	$14

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Dakota Dunes

Joshua HockettDakota Dunes$15K
Brian JohnsonDakota Dunes$14K
Justin DeansDakota Dunes$13K
Joseph CarreauDakota Dunes$7K
Ryan MeisDakota Dunes$7K
Daniel NelsonDakota Dunes$4K
Steven StokesbaryDakota Dunes$3K
Michael EspirituDakota Dunes$2K
Daniel KensingerDakota Dunes$2K
Stuart FrommRapid City$13.3M

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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.

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