Benjamin Curtis, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1124299714
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,214 of the $1,891 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Active Medical, LLC accounts for 64.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,254 and has fallen 91.5% since, to $106 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in UT, where the typical reported total is $5,401.
Across 27 payments — averaging $70.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Active Medical, LLC$1K
- Stryker$279
- Merck$80
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$69
- Lima USA, Inc.$40
- Zimmer Biomet$34
- plus $176 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$67736%
- Education$1,21464%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Active Medical, LLC | 2 | $1,214 |
| Stryker | 7 | $279 |
| Merck | 4 | $80 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $34 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Vertex | 1 | $29 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 33 | $201 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 29 | $187 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $162 |
| Meloxicam | 27 | $77 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Salt Lake City
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
- Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$2.6M
- Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
- Thomas HigginsSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher MartinSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher PeltSalt Lake City$432K
- Robert BurksSalt Lake City$355K
- Charles SaltzmanSalt Lake City$254K
- Stephen AokiSalt Lake City$239K
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.