Benjamin Cooper, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Prairie du Sac, WINPI 1750810560
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $40,000 of the $65,344 with a category attached, or 61.2%. Arthrex accounts for 63.1% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $30,369 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $397 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 129 payments — averaging $506.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$41K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$6K
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- plus $5K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$40,00061%
- Travel & lodging$7,83312%
- Food & beverage$6,31210%
- Education$11,20017%
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 | 22 | $41,213 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 6 | $6,105 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $4,399 |
| Stryker | 24 | $3,301 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 33 | $2,862 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 16 | $2,445 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 5 | $2,215 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 5 | $1,351 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $307 |
| Enduromed, LLC | 4 | $298 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $191 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $169 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $146 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $124 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$2,518
- EQUINOXE$2,215
- GAMMA$1,279
- ACTIS$1,169
- ATTUNE$1,169
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,046
- TACTOSET$294
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$185
- PROPHECY$172
- PRIMARY SHOULDER$169
- RevoMotion$150
- ULTRABUTTON$149
- INHANCE$149
- Irrisept$146
- RIGIDLOOP$142
- ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$124
- DYNACORD$119
How this compares
$65,344 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 16 | $151 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Prairie du Sac
- Robert ChurchillGrafton$7.7M
- Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
- Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
- Clifford TribusMadison$1.4M
- Thomas ZdeblickMadison$1.1M
- Justin MitchellOnalaska$666K
- Christopher BibboStevens Point$615K
- Robert LimoniAppleton$514K
- Paul AndersonVerona$456K
- Shawn HenniganAppleton$455K
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.