Has Benjamin Eliason, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,486 in general payments to Benjamin Eliason, MD across 98 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 Benjamin Eliason, 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 Benjamin Eliason, 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.

Benjamin Eliason, MD

Psychiatry · South Jordan, UTNPI 1659418267

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.7% of the total across 98 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 26.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $358 and has fallen 74.2% since, to $92 in 2025.

$1,486in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 98 payments — averaging $15.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$386
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$268
Johnson & Johnson$167
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$142
Alkermes, Inc.$130
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$77
plus $316 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,43797%
Education$493%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	27	$386
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	27	$268
Johnson & Johnson	4	$167
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	6	$142
Alkermes, Inc.	6	$130
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	9	$77
Lundbeck LLC	5	$76
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$67
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$37
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$30
Shire North American Group Inc	2	$23
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$20
Indivior Inc.	1	$17
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$16
Eisai Inc.	1	$16
Biogen	1	$14

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.

SPRAVATO$114

How this compares

$1,486 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 231 psychiatry providers in Utah.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$25,422

Medicare patients

Services billed

244

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
Trazodone Hcl	34	$964
Duloxetine Hcl	29	$881
Sertraline Hcl	53	$837
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	28	$660
Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	16	$642
Lorazepam	51	$602
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	23	$595
Prazosin Hcl	24	$557
Buspirone Hcl	24	$538
Quetiapine Fumarate	28	$416
Topiramate	14	$372
Gabapentin	19	$332
Clonazepam	32	$308
Citalopram HbrCitalopram Hydrobromide	13	$283
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	18	$242

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in South Jordan

Hans WatsonSouth Jordan$563
Michael MeasomSlc$2.2M
Noel GardnerSalt Lake City$512K
Reid RobisonOrem$133K
Thomas RaynerProvo$60K
Trent HolmbergDraper$32K
Nathan CurrierRiverton$21K
Oliver McPhersonBountiful$20K
Frederick ReimherrSalt Lake City$18K
Lisa FraleighLogan$8K

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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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