Has Ben Preminger, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,036 in general payments to Ben Preminger, MD across 11 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ben Preminger, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ben Preminger, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ben Preminger, MD

Urology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1871514372

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,036in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $94.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boehringer Ingelheim$747
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$125
Johnson & Johnson$125
Pfizer$39

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,036100%

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
Boehringer Ingelheim	6	$747
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$125
Johnson & Johnson	1	$125
Pfizer	3	$39

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

$1,036 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$259,237

Medicare patients

374

Services billed

3,537

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron	37	$24,854
Tamsulosin Hcl	383	$7,556
Silodosin	83	$7,350
Methenamine Hippurate	96	$5,054
Finasteride	236	$3,668
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	122	$2,977
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	50	$834
Oxybutynin Chloride	68	$649
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	58	$614
Doxazosin Mesylate	27	$595
Bicalutamide	33	$554
Trospium Chloride	20	$430
Desmopressin Acetate	15	$389
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	20	$219

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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