Benjamin Sears
Orthopaedic Surgery · Denver, CONPI 1679739221
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $158,030 of the $185,509 with a category attached, or 85.2%. Shoulder Innovations, Inc. accounts for 76.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $95,030, more than ten times the $4,215 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CO 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 191 payments — averaging $971.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$141K
- UOC USA Inc$25K
- Arthrex$11K
- Biopoly LLC$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$1K
- plus $2K from 14 others
Across 54 payments — averaging $13,422 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Arthrex$713K
- Exactech, Inc.$12K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,1161%
- Consulting fees$158,03085%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0001%
- Travel & lodging$11,9586%
- Food & beverage$10,0635%
- Education$2,2431%
- Gifts$980%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 80 | $141,042 |
| UOC USA Inc | 20 | $24,999 |
| Arthrex | 31 | $11,192 |
| Biopoly LLC | 2 | $3,296 |
| Stryker | 23 | $1,561 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 5 | $1,493 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $783 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $215 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 2 | $199 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 3 | $147 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $99 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- InSet System$139,944
- System One$8,531
- Tru Axis$7,512
- UOC Shoulder System$3,600
- N/A$2,600
- BioPoly Radial Head Implant$1,116
- Shoulder$708
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$476
- Shoulder System$462
- DJO SURGICAL$375
- AETOS Shoulder System$257
- PANGEA$253
- AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$173
- EQUINOXE$150
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$150
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$137
- ANJESO$131
- System One Shoulder$125
- T2$124
- Tymlos$124
How this compares
$185,509 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $154 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 18 | $129 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $126 |
| Meloxicam | 40 | $126 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $38 |
| Amoxicillin | 11 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Denver
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
- Todd MinerDenver$278K
- Harold HuntDenver$179K
- Wayne GersoffDenver$164K
- Catherine LoganDenver$93K
- David HahnDenver$77K
- Joshua ParryDenver$47K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
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.