Benjamin Biteman, MD
Surgery · Warren, OHNPI 1336456391
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $79,000 of the $93,933 with a category attached, or 84.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $28,568 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $1,339 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 113 payments — averaging $831.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$86K
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$5K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$235
- Medtronic$183
- plus $676 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,9005%
- Travel & lodging$2,0692%
- Food & beverage$7,9658%
- Education$79,00084%
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 | 76 | $85,502 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $5,150 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $1,172 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,016 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $235 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $183 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $159 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| BD | 1 | $116 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $68 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$93,933 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 988 surgery providers in Ohio.
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 | 70 | $2,006 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 163 | $1,936 |
| Scopolamine | 14 | $1,216 |
| Omeprazole | 103 | $891 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 12 | $690 |
| Ibuprofen | 80 | $329 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 86 | $306 |
| Methocarbamol | 44 | $262 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 19 | $220 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 23 | $136 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 16 | $135 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 45 | $66 |
| Metronidazole | 18 | $39 |
| IbuIbuprofen | 12 | $33 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Warren
- Jonathan ThompsonWest Chester$2.1M
- Raymond OndersCleveland$1.2M
- Neilendu KunduCleveland$808K
- Michael MearaColumbus$808K
- Chase WehrleCleveland$741K
- Craig JarrettCleveland$622K
- Greg StarleyCuyahoga Falls$594K
- Ihya GorgunCleveland$527K
- Marshall SpaldingColumbus$450K
- Jason ShoemakerDublin$344K
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.