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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,312 in general payments to Benjamin Bjerke, MD across 120 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 Bjerke, 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 Bjerke, 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 Bjerke, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Jeffersonville, INNPI 1639496292

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,304 of the $7,312 with a category attached, or 72.5%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 43.5% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IN, where the typical reported total is $8,429.

$7,312in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $60.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Globus Medical$2K
Johnson & Johnson$359
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$217
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$165
Stryker$150
plus $798 from 16 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,00727%
Food & beverage$5,30473%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Medtronic	46	$3,179
Globus Medical(2 entities)	25	$2,443
Johnson & Johnson	7	$359
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$217
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	8	$165
Stryker	1	$150
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	5	$106
Encore Medical, LP	1	$102
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$95
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	4	$79
Abbott	2	$75
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$55
Expanding Innovations, Inc.	1	$49
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$40
Amgen	2	$39
Avanos Medical	2	$39
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	2	$31
Zimmer Biomet	1	$28
Nevro Corp.	1	$20
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$16
Boston Scientific	1	$13
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$12

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.

CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$677
EXCELSIUS$631
ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$528
XLIF$475
MAZOR X SYSTEM$362
Excelsius Robotics System$355
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$213
INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$153
MAKO$150
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$117
TLIF$105
DJO SURGICAL$102
ADIRA$101

How this compares

$7,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 48 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$255,112

Medicare patients

387

Services billed

1,657

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
AmantadineAmantadine Hcl	11	$1,399
Gabapentin	168	$1,368
Scopolamine	14	$891
Meloxicam	209	$801
Pregabalin	35	$551
Methocarbamol	313	$548
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	73	$505
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	49	$467
Methylprednisolone	68	$435
Tramadol Hcl	138	$202
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	19	$55
Diazepam	15	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Jeffersonville

Rick SassoCarmel$1.6M
David SchwartzIndianapolis$1.5M
Zeshan HyderCrown Point$1.1M
Gregory PoulterIndianapolis$995K
Nitin KhannaMunster$702K
Michael McMainsIndianapolis$686K
Mohammad MajdNew Albany$504K
Deepak ReddySouth Bend$496K
Paul KraemerCarmel$276K
Dwight TyndallCrown Point$271K

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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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