Aaron Benson, MD
Gastroenterology · Mt Prospect, ILNPI 1164508453
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 388 payments — averaging $19.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$311
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$264
- Gilead$246
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,14697%
- Education$2473%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 113 | $2,019 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 80 | $1,231 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 64 | $1,123 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 10 | $311 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 21 | $264 |
| Gilead | 13 | $246 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $208 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 8 | $194 |
| Sanofi | 6 | $187 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $136 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $124 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Creo Medical Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $95 |
| Sandoz | 4 | $86 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $83 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $81 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $69 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $68 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $65 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $54 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Vivus LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Biocon Biologics Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $25 |
| Advanced Bionics, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Organon | 1 | $19 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $18 |
| Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
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.
- ESOPHYX$121
- CONMED BILIARY$103
- Speedboat Ultraslim (SB1L)$100
How this compares
$7,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 787 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mesalamine | 26 | $29,804 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 297 | $20,072 |
| ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase | 12 | $16,707 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 14 | $12,467 |
| MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate | 12 | $10,310 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 355 | $5,548 |
| Ursodiol | 22 | $3,283 |
| CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar) | 22 | $2,181 |
| Omeprazole | 215 | $2,002 |
| Mesalamine ErMesalamine | 12 | $1,907 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 25 | $1,093 |
| Lansoprazole | 26 | $848 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 35 | $741 |
| Sulfasalazine | 12 | $536 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 14 | $266 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLinzess | $2,019 | $12,46714 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Motegrity | $1,231 | $10,31012 claims |
| SandozLansoprazole | $86 | $84826 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 787 gastroenterology providers in Illinois.
Other gastroenterology in Mt Prospect
- Kamran AyubOak Lawn$4.3M
- David RubinChicago$3.6M
- Jonathan RosenbergGurnee$3.1M
- Stephen HanauerChicago$2.9M
- Parambir DulaiChicago$2.2M
- Charles BerkelhammerOak Lawn$1.9M
- Ikuo HiranoChicago$1.8M
- Manish BhuvaLake Barrington$1.7M
- Steven FlammChicago$1.6M
- Amar NaikDes Plaines$1.4M
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.