Benjamin Woodhead, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Lincoln, NENPI 1083850325
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.8%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Shoulder Innovations, Inc. accounts for 74.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $14,001, more than ten times the $1,376 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NE 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 126 payments — averaging $383.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$36K
- Arthrex$5K
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$485
- Johnson & Johnson$275
- plus $221 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$10,89823%
- Consulting fees$21,66145%
- Travel & lodging$7,72416%
- Food & beverage$3,6498%
- Education$4,4209%
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. | 32 | $35,818 |
| Arthrex | 51 | $5,430 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 18 | $4,128 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,995 |
| Stryker | 8 | $485 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $275 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- InSet System$35,491
- T2$227
- ATTUNE$121
How this compares
$48,352 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 155 orthopaedic surgery providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 71 | $855 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 113 | $717 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 82 | $343 |
| Methylprednisolone | 29 | $262 |
| Prednisone | 48 | $177 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 40 | $110 |
| Meloxicam | 48 | $104 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $72 |
| Amoxicillin | 61 | $69 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Lincoln
- Matthew FreemanLincoln$30K
- Lukas HashemLincoln$25K
- David SamaniLincoln$22K
- Matthew ByingtonLincoln$10K
- Nickolas van RoekelLincoln$9K
- Dane ToddLincoln$9K
- Steven WahlmeierLincoln$9K
- Brandon SeifertLincoln$7K
- Todd SekundiakElkhorn$7.3M
- Heber CrockettKearney$4.2M
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.