Has Ilya Bendich, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $77,613 in general payments to Ilya Bendich, MD across 114 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ilya Bendich, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ilya Bendich, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ilya Bendich, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1225419617

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $62,516 of the $77,613 with a category attached, or 80.5%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 45.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $37,075, more than ten times the $2,131 reported in 2021.

$77,613in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 114 payments — averaging $680.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$35K
Biocomposites Inc$19K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$14K
Stryker$3K
Zimmer Biomet$3K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
plus $2K from 5 others

$365,597in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $6898.06 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Stryker$334K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$32K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$62,51681%
Travel & lodging$5,8598%
Food & beverage$6,4568%
Other$2,7824%

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
Smith+Nephew	32	$35,262
Biocomposites Inc	6	$18,636
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	16	$13,677
Stryker	28	$2,831
Zimmer Biomet	1	$2,782
Johnson & Johnson	8	$2,360
Encore Medical, LP	15	$1,358
Orthalign Inc	5	$386
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$154
Linkbio Corp	1	$146
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$23

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.

How this compares

$77,613 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 36 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$295,681

Medicare patients

431

Services billed

2,016

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
Mupirocin	284	$1,783
Oxycodone Hcl	168	$940
Tramadol Hcl	163	$451
Meloxicam	94	$186
Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2)	14	$181
Amoxicillin	82	$96
Clindamycin Hcl	15	$60
Prednisone	30	$58
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	16	$53

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Saint Louis

Robert BarrackSaint Louis$10.6M
Ryan NunleySaint Louis$3.9M
John ClohisySaint Louis$538K
Kimberly BartosiakSaint Louis$92K
Muyibat AdelaniSaint Louis$71K
Parth VyasSaint Louis$47K
Katherine MistrettaSaint Louis$41K
Gireesh ReddySaint Louis$18K
Joseph GibianSaint Louis$13K
Tyler CalkinsSaint Louis$11K

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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.

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