Wendell Becton, MD
Sports Medicine · Bloomington, ILNPI 1649237504
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 17 payments — averaging $164.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$650
- Johnson & Johnson$71
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$37
- Kerecis Limited$25
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$23
- plus $50 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$33712%
- Education$2,46888%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 4 | $1,948 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 2 | $650 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $71 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $25 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $8 |
How this compares
$2,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 233 sports medicine providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 25 | $1,306 |
| Etodolac | 25 | $845 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 28 | $353 |
| Meloxicam | 49 | $103 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Bloomington
- Benjamin DombDes Plaines$18.1M
- Gregory NicholsonChicago$6.7M
- Grant GarriguesChicago$3.1M
- Brian ColeChicago$3.1M
- Brian ForsytheChicago$2M
- Nikhil VermaChicago$1M
- Shane NhoChicago$668K
- Adam YankeChicago$388K
- Jason KohSkokie$227K
- Jourdan CancienneJoliet$224K
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.