Benjamin Tippets
Pediatric Pulmonology · Boise, IDNPI 1689866451
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 106 payments — averaging $18.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$576
- AbbVie$503
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$332
- Gilead$120
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$95
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$63
- plus $251 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,80893%
- Education$1317%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex | 25 | $576 |
| AbbVie | 25 | $503 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 24 | $332 |
| Gilead | 7 | $120 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 4 | $63 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 3 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $27 |
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| PARI Respiratory Equipment, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- SYMDEKO$108
How this compares
Too few pediatric pulmonology providers in Idahoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pediatric pulmonology in Boise
- Nancy HongBoise$492
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.