Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Thomas Bemenderfer

Orthopaedic Surgery South Bend, IN Medical Doctor

NPI 1891105425 CMS profile 702374

53880 Carmichael Dr, South Bend, IN 46635

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General payments

$27,905

239 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Thomas Bemenderfer of South Bend, IN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $27,905 across 239 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 84th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $14,184 35
2024 General $917 27
2023 General $2,512 42
2022 General $3,322 55
2021 General $1,740 35
2020 General $2,489 33
2019 General $2,742 12

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Thomas Bemenderfer
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Thomas Bemenderfer were reported at $14,184. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Thomas Bemenderfer Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $2,742 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $2,489 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $1,740 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $3,322 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $2,512 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $917 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $14,184 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Stryker Corporation $20,155 158 payments
  2. Wright Medical Technology, Inc. $1,655 16 payments
  3. Peerless Surgical Inc. $1,498 2 payments
  4. Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC $1,226 2 payments
  5. Paragon 28, Inc. $1,074 9 payments
  6. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $795 25 payments
  7. Exactech, Inc. $574 3 payments
  8. Novastep Inc. $171 3 payments
  9. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $164 4 payments
  10. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $148 11 payments
  11. Other $443 6 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $11,213 3 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $8,235 207 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $5,463 25 payments
  4. Education $2,994 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. INBONE $2,506 21 payments
  2. VARIAX $1,591 46 payments
  3. PROPHECY $1,228 9 payments
  4. INVISION $1,204 8 payments
  5. PROstep $1,171 7 payments
  6. AUGMENT INJECTABLE $766 5 payments
  7. GAMMA $645 9 payments
  8. VANTAGE $574 3 payments
  9. AXSOS $563 7 payments
  10. HOFFMANN $560 8 payments
  11. Other $7,642 156 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 10 drugs

Part D claims

688

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$4,128

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

31.7%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 126 $935
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 46 $824
Gabapentin Generic 85 $718
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 36 $324
Meloxicam Generic 185 $287
Pregabalin Generic 11 $261
Tramadol Hcl Generic 59 $252
Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim Brand 56 $226
Ondansetron Hcl Generic 72 $211
Doxycycline Hyclate Generic 12 $89

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 133 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$149,549

Of which drugs: $145

Medicare patients

296

Average age 74

Services billed

1,834

184 women, 112 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 68%
Depression 33%
Diabetes 32%
Ischemic heart disease 27%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Osteoporosis 23%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 23 112 $88
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 16 92 $8

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

239 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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