Benjamin Henkle, MD
Pain Medicine · Lowell, MANPI 1669630083
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,159 of the $16,579 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Medtronic accounts for 68.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,096 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $756 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 322 payments — averaging $51.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$11K
- AbbVie$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$201
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$180
- Boston Scientific$170
- plus $466 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,14513%
- Travel & lodging$4,21025%
- Food & beverage$10,15961%
- Education$650%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 140 | $11,301 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 86 | $2,139 |
| Abbott | 61 | $2,121 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 8 | $201 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $180 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $170 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $100 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $97 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $85 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $33 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$4,227
- SYNCHROMEDII$1,520
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$1,233
- INTELLIS$374
- PROCLAIM$282
- RESTORE$144
- ASCENDA$142
- Octrode SCS Leads$126
- Axium$121
- Vanta$118
- BOTOX$116
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$114
- Proclaim IPG$104
How this compares
$16,579 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 137 pain medicine providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 114 | $1,350 |
| Pregabalin | 53 | $953 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $744 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 24 | $369 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $275 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 37 | $241 |
| Clonazepam | 12 | $210 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $95 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $84 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Lowell
- Alexandra AdlerLowell$35K
- Hariharan SundramNewton$1.7M
- Thomas SimopoulosBoston$181K
- Ivan UritsWareham$70K
- Antje BarreveldNewton$64K
- Arti OriBoston$62K
- Christine SangBoston$56K
- Ali EbrahimiBurlington$41K
- Eduard VaynbergBoston$32K
- David GarasNatick$21K
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.