Benjamin Cohen, MD
Neurosurgery · Rockville Centre, NYNPI 1982627626
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Xtant Medical Inc at 27.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,098, 4.5 times the $1,815 reported in 2019.
Across 91 payments — averaging $206.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Xtant Medical Inc$5K
- Stryker$5K
- Medtronic$2K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$420
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,10454%
- Travel & lodging$2,41913%
- Food & beverage$5,85031%
- Education$3922%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Xtant Medical Inc | 3 | $5,228 |
| Stryker | 13 | $5,004 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 29 | $2,074 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 3 | $2,069 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 9 | $1,790 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 4 | $420 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 4 | $389 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $371 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $308 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $295 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $227 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $180 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $136 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $98 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $27 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$3,974
- PRODISC L$1,971
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,301
- Intracept$829
- INTELLIS$397
- INCEPTIV$335
- TRITANIUM$315
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$308
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$250
- OASYS$250
- Da Vinci Surgical System$208
- LIF$180
- SYNCHROMEDII$178
- EVEREST$175
- Evoke$170
- ADAPTIVESTIM$166
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$165
- iFuse Implant$140
- ACTIFUSE$136
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$130
How this compares
Too few neurosurgery providers in New Yorkto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Other neurosurgery in Rockville Centre
- William SonsteinRockville Centre$4K
- Michael BrismanRockville Centre$166
- David AltschulBronx$440K
- Alexandra PaulAlbany$90K
- Joshua BedersonNew York$12K
- Tanvir ChoudhriNew York$4K
- Ning LinNew York$4K
- Isabelle GermanoNew York$4K
- Ori BarzilaiNew York$3K
- Michael HahnKingston$2K
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.