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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,357 in general payments to Benjamin Mitchell, MD across 127 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 Mitchell, 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 Mitchell, 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 Mitchell, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Englewood, CONPI 1629574520

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,935 of the $9,357 with a category attached, or 63.4%. Medtronic accounts for 68.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $28,402.

$9,357in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $73.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$6K
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$666
Globus Medical$639
Alphatec Spine, Inc$539
Stryker$456
Icotec Medical Inc.$421
plus $210 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,42237%
Food & beverage$5,93563%

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	98	$6,426
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.	2	$666
Globus Medical	8	$639
Alphatec Spine, Inc	7	$539
Stryker	4	$456
Icotec Medical Inc.	4	$421
Degen Medical, Inc.	1	$131
DJO, LLC	1	$36
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$28
Theragen, Inc.	1	$15

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.

How this compares

$9,357 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$21,116

Medicare patients

Services billed

141

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 orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Englewood

Christopher JohnsonEnglewood$29K
Sanjay JatanaEnglewood$4K
George FreyDenver$5.3M
Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
Edward DonnerJohnstown$2.5M
Jim YoussefDurango$2.3M
Scott StanleyParker$1.7M
Timothy KukloDenver$1.3M
Michael GallizziLone Tree$1.2M
Douglas BeardFort Collins$583K

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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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