Benjamin Mueller
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Fridley, MNNPI 1386838951
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.0%), travel and lodging and royalties or licence payments — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 33.5% of the total.
Across 188 payments — averaging $475.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$30K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$30K
- Globus Medical$26K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$303
- plus $271 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$8,73010%
- Consulting fees$44,69450%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,0509%
- Travel & lodging$22,15425%
- Food & beverage$5,3986%
- Gifts$300%
- Entertainment$3740%
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(2 entities) | 107 | $29,970 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 24 | $29,708 |
| Globus Medical | 30 | $25,777 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 14 | $1,874 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 4 | $1,527 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $303 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $113 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 2 | $79 |
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.
- MagnetOs$29,246
- Modular Lateral Plate$14,825
- ADIRA$8,730
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$7,263
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$5,715
- UNID_PASS$2,450
- RISE-L$1,753
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,489
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,308
- Mariner$768
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$564
- M6-C$161
- NEWBRIDGE$161
- Mariner Outrigger$121
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$117
- Excelsius - GPS$112
- PILLAR SA PEEK Spacer System$111
- ATHLET$111
- Firebird Deformity Correction System$111
- Firebird NXG Spinal Fixation System$111
How this compares
$89,430 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 39 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Minnesota.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 21 | $166 |
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $142 |
| Methocarbamol | 15 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Fridley
- Garry BanksFridley$193
- Eiman ShafaMinneapolis$570K
- Glenn ButtermannRoseville$259K
- Nicholas WillsEagan$241K
- Tenner GuillaumeSaint Paul$163K
- Michael SmithEdina$43K
- Nathan WandermanWoodbury$42K
- Nathan HendricksonMinneapolis$34K
- Todd JackmanEdina$30K
- John ShermanEdina$28K
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.