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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,395 in general payments to Benjamin Panter, MD across 76 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 Panter, 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 Panter, 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 Panter, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Norman, OKNPI 1154527992

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (45.3%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pylant Medical at 33.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,665 and has fallen 87.4% since, to $336 in 2025.

$7,395in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 76 payments — averaging $97.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Pylant Medical$2K
Arthrex$2K
Stryker$2K
Ortho Development Corporation$371
Smith+Nephew$168
Linkbio Corp$161
plus $637 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$6789%
Food & beverage$3,25144%
Education$3,35245%
Gifts$1142%

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
Pylant Medical	11	$2,484
Arthrex	12	$1,893
Stryker	22	$1,681
Ortho Development Corporation	2	$371
Smith+Nephew	2	$168
Linkbio Corp	2	$161
Zimmer Biomet	1	$136
Engage Uni, LLC	1	$114
UCB, Inc.	6	$96
AbbVie	3	$48
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$38
Amgen	2	$34
Johnson & Johnson	2	$33
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$25
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$25
Medtronic	2	$24
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$19
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$19
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$16
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$11

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

$7,395 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Oklahoma.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$155,656

Medicare patients

258

Services billed

792

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
EliquisApixaban	11	$4,050
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	215	$2,328
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	128	$2,194
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	59	$657
Meloxicam	91	$614
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	26	$376
Cephalexin	105	$364
Methylprednisolone	27	$176
Tramadol Hcl	48	$173
Ibuprofen	14	$128
Hydromorphone Hcl	16	$106
Gabapentin	16	$99
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$68
Prednisone	11	$36
Promethazine Hcl	12	$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Norman

Vytautas RingusNorman$272K
Joshua WilsonNorman$40K
Jeremiah MaupinNorman$20K
James BondNorman$16K
Yogesh MittalTulsa$6.6M
Andrew ParkinsonOklahoma City$3.1M
Bradley ReddickOklahoma City$573K
Jason EmersonOklahoma City$189K
Brian ChalkinTulsa$183K
Ronald DumiganOklahoma City$169K

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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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