Benjamin Widmer, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Murray, UTNPI 1871760439
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $143,350 of the $160,185 with a category attached, or 89.5%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 82.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $40,015 and has fallen 60.0% since, to $15,988 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in UT 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 121 payments — averaging $1323.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$132K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$16K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$11K
- Stryker$402
- Johnson & Johnson$361
- Biorez, Inc.$275
- plus $534 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$143,35089%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,3651%
- Travel & lodging$11,9557%
- Food & beverage$3,3612%
- Education$1540%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 77 | $132,261 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 16 | $15,606 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 6 | $10,746 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 7 | $402 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $361 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 2 | $275 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $154 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $117 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $115 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 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.
- DJO SURGICAL$155,120
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$49,326
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$49,311
- VAPR$20,463
- HEALIX$3,614
- RIGIDLOOP$3,510
- IDEAL$3,510
- FMS$828
- N/A$572
- BioBrace 23mm$391
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$357
- BioBrace 5mm$275
- Persona$154
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$122
- DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$122
- DJO Surgical Alians Proximal Humerus Fracture Plate$122
- AEQUALIS$121
- Catalyst Total CSR$117
- DYNACORD$104
- GRYPHON$104
How this compares
$160,185 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Murray
- Hugh WestMurray$14.2M
- Bradley SmithMurray$34K
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Thomas CaltonWashington Terrace$3.5M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
- Joshua HickmanBountiful$2.7M
- Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$2.6M
- Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
- Peter StevensSlc$2.1M
- Thomas HigginsSalt Lake City$1.2M
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.