William Behrens, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1770012767
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 135 payments — averaging $197.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$7K
- Encore Medical, LP$6K
- Ortho Development Corporation$5K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$3K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- plus $3K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,4009%
- Travel & lodging$9,09534%
- Food & beverage$7,94530%
- Education$7,22827%
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 | 11 | $6,728 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 27 | $6,252 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 26 | $4,685 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 25 | $3,233 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 7 | $1,303 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $1,297 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $993 |
| Stryker | 11 | $880 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $446 |
| Orthalign Inc | 3 | $361 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 2 | $144 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Insight Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 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.
- DJO SURGICAL$8,884
- AMISTEM$2,350
- Balance Knee Revision System$1,528
- BKS Uni$1,430
- Persona$993
- MAKO$670
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$407
- Journey II$407
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$279
- ROSA$279
- Legion Revision$262
- K-15 PORK$262
- Balanced Knee Revision System$253
- BKS TriMax$177
- Ovation Hip Stem$177
- Escalade Acetabular System$177
- Alpine Hip System$177
- EVOS$145
- Tandem$144
- NA$132
How this compares
$26,667 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.
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 | 155 | $1,325 |
| Gabapentin | 85 | $649 |
| Meloxicam | 332 | $578 |
| Celecoxib | 42 | $487 |
| Ibuprofen | 57 | $422 |
| Indomethacin | 33 | $375 |
| Cephalexin | 31 | $357 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 51 | $349 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $205 |
| Methocarbamol | 17 | $177 |
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $145 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 34 | $117 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $90 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $65 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 16 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Saint Louis
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$674K
- Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
- Jeffrey WhitingSaint Louis$387K
- Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$384K
- Benjamin ZmistowskiSaint Louis$347K
- Alexander AleemSaint Louis$314K
- Rhoderic MirkinSaint Louis$209K
- Sridhar PinnamaneniSaint Louis$188K
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.