Benjamin Plank, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Billings, MTNPI 1053462200
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.0%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 64.4% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in MT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 349 payments — averaging $132.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$30K
- Medtronic$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- plus $3K from 19 others
Across 66 payments — averaging $2194.02 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.
- Edwards Lifesciences$56K
- Abbott$55K
- Medtronic$34K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,87519%
- Travel & lodging$16,95937%
- Food & beverage$20,27544%
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 | 133 | $29,685 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $4,311 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 32 | $2,997 |
| Boston Scientific | 33 | $2,198 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 24 | $1,952 |
| Abiomed | 47 | $1,848 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 7 | $685 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 7 | $571 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $241 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $229 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Novartis | 5 | $152 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $149 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $128 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $112 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $94 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $59 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $53 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Amgen | 1 | $22 |
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.
- NAVITOR$14,260
- MitraClip$2,986
- Mitra Clip system$2,958
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$2,796
- AMPLATZER$2,082
- Watchman$1,262
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$1,229
- AMPLATZER AMULET$813
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$725
- MitraClip System$605
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$547
- Vascular Lithotripsy$463
- Impella$404
- EVOQUE$371
- TRICLIP$369
- WATCHMAN FLX$348
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$341
- Diamondback Coronary$320
- CoreValve Evolut$283
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$268
How this compares
$46,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 49 cardiovascular disease providers in Montana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | 15 | $164 |
| Prednisone | 22 | $32 |
| Amoxicillin | 13 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Billings
- Joseph ApostolBillings$12K
- Douglas WaldoBillings$3K
- Jeffrey SmithBillings$2K
- Christopher AnzaloneBillings$2K
- Arthur RabinowitzBillings$1K
- Emily HansonBillings$1K
- Joseph CondonBillings$950
- Barbara DudczakBillings$300
- Clara KwanBillings$276
- Chris LinBillings$125
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.