Benjamin Mantell, MD
Pediatric Cardiology · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1134562614
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $332 of the $527 with a category attached, or 63.0%. Abbott accounts for 73.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $247 and has fallen 85.9% since, to $35 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for pediatric cardiology clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $329.
Across 9 payments — averaging $58.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$388
- Merck$35
- Sanofi$32
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$26
- Silvergate Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$26
- Abiomed$20
Across 5 payments — averaging $13,053 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.
- Merck$65K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$33263%
- Education$19537%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 4 | $388 |
| Merck | 1 | $35 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $32 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $26 |
| Silvergate Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $20 |
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
$527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 126 pediatric cardiology providers in Ohio.
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 pediatric cardiology in Cincinnati
- Shabana ShahanavazCincinnati$579K
- Angela LortsCincinnati$170K
- Michael TaylorCincinnati$109K
- Chet VillaCincinnati$31K
- Russel HirschCincinnati$22K
- Elaine UrbinaCincinnati$16K
- Sarosh BatlivalaCincinnati$9K
- Clifford ChinCincinnati$7K
- Garick HillCincinnati$6K
- Nicolas MadsenCincinnati$6K
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.