Benjamin Stevens, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Springfield, ILNPI 1295953172
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $12,825 of the $17,374 with a category attached, or 73.8%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 81.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,880 and has fallen 91.2% since, to $608 in 2025.
Across 78 payments — averaging $222.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$14K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Stryker$599
- Synthes USA Products LLC$448
- Zimmer Biomet$283
- Medartis Inc.$269
- plus $337 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,82574%
- Travel & lodging$1,5889%
- Food & beverage$2,96217%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $14,160 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 24 | $1,277 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 19 | $599 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 4 | $448 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $283 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $269 |
| Kerecis Limited | 6 | $144 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Amgen | 3 | $56 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- VA-LCP$12,984
- NA$12,825
- LCP$12,825
- Fibulink$1,176
- FIBULINK Syndesmosis Repair System$411
- HAMMERLOCK$391
- INBONE$354
- APTUS$269
- TFN-Advance$159
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$109
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$106
How this compares
$17,374 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 204 | $1,187 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 51 | $642 |
| Celecoxib | 64 | $640 |
| Piroxicam | 19 | $271 |
| Cephalexin | 27 | $177 |
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $122 |
| Meloxicam | 22 | $107 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Springfield
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
- Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
- David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M
- Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
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.