Clint Benge, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1710367719
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 56.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,980, 2.8 times the $2,158 reported in 2019.
Across 176 payments — averaging $104.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$10K
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$4K
- Arcuro Medical Inc$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Linvatec Corporation$684
- Johnson & Johnson$333
- plus $553 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,03338%
- Food & beverage$8,79448%
- Education$2,62914%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 142 | $10,331 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $4,293 |
| Arcuro Medical Inc | 1 | $1,207 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $1,055 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 5 | $684 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $333 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $229 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $150 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $49 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,773
- GAMMA$1,341
- SUPERBALL$1,207
- PRO$980
- NA$859
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$612
- VARIAX$498
- LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$444
- LINVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$444
- AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$431
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$332
- CONEXTIONS TR TENDON REPAIR SYSTEM-IMPLANT MECHANISM$307
- ICONIX$268
- BIOskin$171
- SWANSON$171
- T2$168
- Knees Product Portfolio$150
- T2 ALPHA$136
- HIPCHECK$130
- BioBrace 23mm$128
How this compares
$18,456 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 92 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 55 | $232 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $30 |
| Amoxicillin | 15 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Sioux Falls
- Keith BaumgartenSioux Falls$286K
- Nathan SkelleySioux Falls$191K
- John FarynaSioux Falls$160K
- Geoffrey HaftSioux Falls$84K
- Anthony FiegenSioux Falls$45K
- Alan YanSioux Falls$40K
- Michael AdlerSioux Falls$28K
- Gregory NeelySioux Falls$26K
- Jason HurdSioux Falls$16K
- Benjamin WaltersSioux Falls$13K
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.