Benjamin Brooks
Internal Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1710959929
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $1717.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.$89K
- Orion Corporation$60K
- AstraZeneca$40K
- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc.$16K
- Biogen$641
- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$100
- plus $18 from 1 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $5701.24 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.
- Biogen$23K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$77,87585%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,3507%
- Travel & lodging$5,6186%
- Food & beverage$1,5942%
- Education$580%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 90 | $89,277 |
| Orion Corporation | 10 | $60,017 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $40,286 |
| Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc. | 8 | $15,739 |
| Biogen | 6 | $641 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Radicava$53,797
- Radicava ORS$47,860
- SPINRAZA$520
- QALSODY$139
- Skyclarys$139
How this compares
$206,078 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Charlotte
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
- Christina KennellyCharlotte$15.4M
- Lyndsay MolinariCharlotte$2.4M
- Claud GriggCharlotte$1.5M
- Maher AghaCharlotte$1M
- Jonathan SchwartzCharlotte$824K
- Marc JohnsonCharlotte$823K
- Santosh GopalakrishnanCharlotte$598K
- Maithili ChitnavisCharlotte$536K
- Christopher FerreriCharlotte$434K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.