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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $372,870 in general payments to Benjamin Taylor, MD across 248 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 Taylor, 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 Taylor, 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 Taylor, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus, OHNPI 1659595866

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (56.3%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $92,600 and has fallen 64.4% since, to $32,957 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$372,870in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 248 payments — averaging $1503.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$310K
Stryker$35K
Atricure, Inc.$25K
Johnson & Johnson$865
Kerecis Limited$417
Si-bone, Inc.$172
plus $591 from 8 others

$16,900in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $2414.29 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.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$17K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$209,75756%
Consulting fees$123,86433%
Travel & lodging$31,0848%
Food & beverage$5,1661%
Education$3,0001%

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
Zimmer Biomet	125	$310,373
Stryker	64	$35,490
Atricure, Inc.	21	$24,962
Johnson & Johnson	23	$865
Kerecis Limited	3	$417
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$172
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	1	$122
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	1	$115
Axogen	2	$113
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	1	$89
Arthrex	2	$80
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$33
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$20
Abbott	1	$19

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.

RibFix Blu$162,538
RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$141,424
T2 ALPHA$27,730
RibFix Advantage$25,125
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$14,695
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$9,000
ROSA$3,000
PANGEA$2,230
Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$917
Thoracic Reconstruction$559
AdvantageRib$442
T2$400
NA$341
GAMMA$315
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$306
Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$306
SternaLock 360$214
Photodynamic Bone Stabilization Procedure Pack$122
Geminus$115
Align$115

How this compares

$372,870 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$111,581

Medicare patients

153

Services billed

532

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
Lidocaine	16	$802
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	105	$614
Diclofenac Sodium	19	$489
Gabapentin	42	$415
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	19	$352
Oxycodone Hcl	45	$305
Ibuprofen	20	$167
Meloxicam	58	$156
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	21	$106
Methylprednisolone	16	$89
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	11	$47
Tramadol Hcl	28	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbus

Safdar KhanColumbus$744K
Thomas ScharschmidtColumbus$403K
Sharat KusumaColumbus$137K
Nathaniel LongColumbus$133K
Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
Gregory BerletWorthington$9.6M
Wael BarsoumCleveland$8.9M
Brian CohenChillicothe$8.8M
Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
John SontichYoungstown$3.6M

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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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