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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,324 in general payments to Benjamin Nguyen, MD across 35 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 Nguyen, 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 Nguyen, 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 Nguyen, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Richardson, TXNPI 1609945690

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 35 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $431 and has fallen 59.6% since, to $174 in 2025.

$1,324in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $37.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$252
MDD US Operations, LLC$231
Medtronic$194
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$169
Saol Therapeutics Inc.$131
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$99
plus $247 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,324100%

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)	6	$252
MDD US Operations, LLC	8	$231
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$194
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$169
Saol Therapeutics Inc.	3	$131
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	2	$99
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	1	$57
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$39
AstraZeneca	1	$34
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	2	$33
CSL Behring	1	$22
GE HealthCare	1	$18
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	1	$16
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$15
Piramal Critical Care	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

$1,324 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 651 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$83,565

Medicare patients

305

Services billed

931

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
EliquisApixaban	14	$8,971
Gabapentin	65	$1,635
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	44	$1,579
Baclofen	58	$1,274
Lidocaine	18	$971
Methylphenidate Hcl	42	$899
Duloxetine Hcl	14	$360
Tizanidine Hcl	29	$227
Atorvastatin Calcium	23	$221
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$188
Trazodone Hcl	31	$165
Rosuvastatin Calcium	13	$119
Meloxicam	12	$104
Pantoprazole Sodium	12	$93
Amlodipine Besylate	15	$87

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Richardson

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Suzanne ManziHouston$143K
Cindy IvanhoeHouston$111K
Chad McNeilTyler$64K
Sheng LiHouston$44K
Mary RussellShenandoah$37K
Randall WolcottLubbock$31K

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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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