Benjamin Levine, MD
Hand Surgery · Fayetteville, NCNPI 1750305728
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Trimed, Inc. at 41.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,021 and has fallen 94.7% since, to $107 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $2,519.
Across 61 payments — averaging $59.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$530
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$242
- Zimmer Biomet$217
- Amgen$153
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$126
- plus $881 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50041%
- Food & beverage$2,14959%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Stryker | 8 | $530 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 4 | $242 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $217 |
| Amgen | 10 | $153 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 8 | $126 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $125 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $116 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $96 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $64 |
| Nextremity Solutions Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $29 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Axogen | 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.
How this compares
$3,649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 79 hand surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $135 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Fayetteville
- Christpher KliftoDurham$575K
- Raymond GastonCharlotte$505K
- Ryan GarciaCharlotte$381K
- Richard MooreWilmington$177K
- Erica TaylorRaleigh$97K
- Tyler PidgeonMorrisville$50K
- John YanikAsheville$32K
- Zhongyu LiWinston Salem$29K
- Patricia WellbornRaleigh$26K
- Anshul AgarwalaGreensboro$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.