Benjamin Newton, MD
Family Medicine · Chevy Chase, MDNPI 1093986697
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 73 payments — averaging $39.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$365
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$323
- Johnson & Johnson$294
- Medtronic$258
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$195
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$192
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$36513%
- Food & beverage$2,49387%
- Education$171%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 2 | $365 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $323 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $294 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $258 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $195 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $192 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 6 | $128 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Abbott | 2 | $101 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $94 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $83 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$365
- StimQ Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US Receiver$365
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$365
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$365
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$365
- mild Device Kit$323
- Prospera$143
- XEOMIN$124
- ORTHOVISC$116
- MONOVISC$116
How this compares
$2,874 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 35 | $1,320 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 29 | $726 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $253 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $242 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $156 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Chevy Chase
- Stephen OngOxon Hill$5.9M
- Stephan BartWoodstock$1.7M
- Karen DonaldsonBaltimore$899K
- Rajiv DuaColumbia$765K
- Greg TampusLutherville Timonium$735K
- Louis JacquesBaltimore$522K
- Stephanie MellerOxon Hill$518K
- Sharon ChungGlen Burnie$333K
- Michael ObiefuneBaltimore$291K
- Thomas LawrenceBerlin$254K
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.