Aziz Benbrahim, MD
Surgery · Meriden, CTNPI 1205844677
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (51.2%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 60.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 65 payments — averaging $360.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Medtronic$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$315
- Olympus America Inc.$159
- Smith+Nephew$151
- plus $530 from 7 others
Across 54 payments — averaging $1357.29 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$61K
- Covidien LP$12K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,81925%
- Travel & lodging$2,76612%
- Food & beverage$2,82912%
- Education$12,00051%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 15 | $14,080 |
| Medtronic | 20 | $6,576 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,610 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $315 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $159 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $151 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $119 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $110 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
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
$23,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 289 surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 11 | $1,480 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 27 | $231 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 28 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Meriden
- Aurangzeb AliMeriden$9K
- John MortonNew Haven$970K
- Joseph AferzonPortland$712K
- Andrew DuffyNew Haven$256K
- Sherard ChiuFairfield$148K
- Nikhilesh SekharFairfield$140K
- Anees ChagparNew Haven$121K
- Roselle CrombieFairfield$113K
- Craig FlochNorwalk$88K
- Mark FariesNew Haven$84K
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.