Has Steve Behrens, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $158,437 in general payments to Steve Behrens, MD across 300 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 Steve Behrens, 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 Steve Behrens, 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.

Steve Behrens, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1932305992

Payments from drug & device makers

$158,437in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 300 payments — averaging $528.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medline Industries LP$39K
Synthes USA Products LLC$34K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$19K
Medartis Inc.$12K
Novastep Inc.$10K
Spinesmith Holdings, LLC$9K
plus $36K from 26 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$16,13110%
Consulting fees$88,57456%
Speaking & faculty fees$11,8507%
Travel & lodging$18,37612%
Food & beverage$17,19111%
Education$5,5504%
Gifts$7640%

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
Medline Industries LP	50	$38,700
Synthes USA Products LLC	32	$34,296
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	18	$18,514
Medartis Inc.	5	$12,301
Novastep Inc.	9	$10,205
Spinesmith Holdings, LLC	5	$8,500
Johnson & Johnson	61	$6,597
Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.	4	$4,523
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	3	$4,171
Medshape, Inc.	8	$3,627
Stryker(2 entities)	38	$3,531
Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC	6	$2,941
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	5	$2,095
Extremity Medical	8	$1,843
Trilliant Surgical LLC.	8	$1,690
Suvon Surgical LLC	2	$1,358
Polynovo North America LLC	4	$701
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$557
Royal Biologics, Inc.	9	$450
Restor3d, Inc.	4	$353
Encore Medical, LP	1	$192
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$168
Globus Medical	2	$167
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$156
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$155
Arthrex	1	$150
Acumed LLC	1	$103
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	1	$92
Tenex Health Inc.	1	$90
Solventum Corporation	2	$88
Amgen	2	$77
Bioventus LLC	2	$48

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

$158,437 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$151,782

Medicare patients

279

Services billed

532

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.

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Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
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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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