Benjamin Piperno, MD
Surgery · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1144287459
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 41 payments — averaging $24.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$172
- Intuitive Surgical$144
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$79
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$63
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$58
- Protega Pharmaceutials Inc$43
- plus $452 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,010100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 7 | $172 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $144 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $79 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $35 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $34 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Vertex | 1 | $29 |
| Merck | 1 | $27 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $16 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,569 surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 38 | $1,685 |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 31 | $1,048 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 137 | $886 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 178 | $689 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 39 | $535 |
| Ibuprofen | 145 | $271 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 45 | $204 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 13 | $73 |
| Metronidazole | 12 | $67 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $47 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 12 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Jacksonville
- Kenneth JonesJacksonville$267K
- Craig MorgenthalJacksonville$253K
- Thea PriceJacksonville$182K
- Steven HodgettJacksonville$148K
- Nadeen KhouryJacksonville$123K
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Steven FagienBoca Raton$1.6M
- John MullinaxTampa$1.5M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Panagiotis SarantosGainesville$1.3M
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.