Benedicto Baronia, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lubbock, TXNPI 1053516310
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,500 of the $14,860 with a category attached, or 70.7%. Stryker accounts for 85.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,717 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $470 in 2025.
Across 73 payments — averaging $203.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$13K
- Irras USA, Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$303
- Medtronic$198
- Aesculap, Inc.$181
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$165
- plus $270 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,50071%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0237%
- Travel & lodging$5544%
- Food & beverage$2,77819%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 36 | $12,712 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 3 | $1,031 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $303 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $198 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 2 | $181 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $165 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $82 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $75 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $52 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 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.
- NSE - HIGH SPEED DRILLS$5,700
- CORE$3,901
- NSE - SONOPET$1,800
- IRRAflow$998
- N/A$173
- SONOPET IQ$173
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$123
- NA$123
- NICO BRAINPATH$123
- NICO MYRIAD$123
- MazorX - Renaissance$109
How this compares
$14,860 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levetiracetam | 18 | $427 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Lubbock
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
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.