Eric Bendorf, MD
General Surgery · Council Bluffs, IANPI 1558447169
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $36,000 of the $44,537 with a category attached, or 80.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $35,700 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $1,819 in 2025.
Across 134 payments — averaging $332.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$41K
- BD$1K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$414
- Davol Inc.$394
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$250
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$144
- plus $631 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,89411%
- Food & beverage$3,6438%
- Education$36,00081%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 69 | $41,400 |
| BD | 15 | $1,304 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 8 | $414 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $394 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $144 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $108 |
| Stryker | 2 | $104 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $88 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $60 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $44 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $28 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$39,236
- Phasix Mesh$1,175
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- myRisk$250
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$148
- OviTex 2S$141
How this compares
Too few general surgery providers in Iowato 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 | 54 | $190 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Council Bluffs
- Jeremiah JonesDes Moines$375
- David KermodeDes Moines$0
- Abhishek KantamneniIowa City$0
- David PaustianIowa Falls$0
- Narendra BatraCenterville$0
- Jeffrey DietzenbachWest Des Moines$0
- Ronald CheneyLake City$0
- George MillerMarengo$0
- William JongewaardSheldon$0
- Phillip YeeDecorah$0
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.