David Benavides, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Kearney, NENPI 1033190996
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $9,935 of the $15,720 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 25.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,874 and has fallen 60.1% since, to $1,547 in 2025.
Across 121 payments — averaging $129.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$4K
- Si-bone, Inc.$4K
- Cerapedics Inc.$2K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$2K
- Spineology Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50010%
- Travel & lodging$9,93563%
- Food & beverage$4,28527%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 33 | $4,038 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 23 | $3,754 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 4 | $2,002 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 10 | $1,875 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $1,580 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 17 | $1,376 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 10 | $168 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $159 |
| X-spine Systems, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $123 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $88 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Vertex | 3 | $74 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $52 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- iFuse Implant$3,331
- PROCLAIM$3,298
- i-FACTOR Putty$1,967
- OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$1,529
- O-ARM-ST$892
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$196
- DTRAX Spinal System$196
- ALLY Bone Screw$196
- BIOLOGIX Allograft Bone$196
- MazorX - Renaissance$143
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Nebraskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | 16 | $149 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Kearney
- Geoffrey McCullenLincoln$39K
- Brad WebbLincoln$11K
- Tyler WhiteGrand Island$7K
- Travis BaileyOmaha$7K
- Chase WoodwardOmaha$6K
- Robert Vande GuchteLincoln$5K
- James GillOmaha$4K
- Timothy BurdOmaha$4K
- John McClellanOmaha$4K
- Adam SchellOmaha$3K
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.