Benjamin Smith, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Moreno Valley, CANPI 1881905438
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $56,670 of the $78,219 with a category attached, or 72.5%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 96.0% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $28,044 and has fallen 75.9% since, to $6,769 in 2025.
Across 118 payments — averaging $662.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$75K
- Medtronic$2K
- Globus Medical$701
- Zimmer Biomet$130
- Stryker$95
- Baxter Healthcare$53
- plus $145 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$56,67072%
- Travel & lodging$15,76320%
- Food & beverage$5,7677%
- Entertainment$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 70 | $75,128 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $1,967 |
| Globus Medical | 8 | $701 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $130 |
| Stryker | 2 | $95 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $53 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $42 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$62,228
- Solus ALIF$10,045
- LTP$6,625
- LIF$4,986
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,209
- ALIF$163
- ROSA$130
- Invictus MIS$105
- RELINE$103
How this compares
$78,219 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teriparatide | 13 | $15,458 |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 67 | $1,579 |
| Methocarbamol | 182 | $979 |
| Gabapentin | 98 | $799 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 59 | $485 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $217 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $165 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 26 | $129 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Moreno Valley
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
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.