Benny Johnson
Medical Oncology · Houston, TXNPI 1164746723
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $8,741 of the $11,993 with a category attached, or 72.9%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Insmed, Inc. at 44.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,055 and has fallen 86.4% since, to $957 in 2023.
Across 12 payments — averaging $999.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Insmed, Inc.$5K
- Bayer$2K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$2K
- Incyte Corporation$2K
- Array Biopharma Inc$1K
Across 7 payments — averaging $62,109 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.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$274K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$152K
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,74173%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,08426%
- Food & beverage$1671%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $5,355 |
| Bayer | 5 | $1,853 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 4 | $1,824 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $1,700 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $1,260 |
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
$11,993 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 495 medical oncology providers in Texas.
Other medical oncology in Houston
- Roy HerbstHouston$1.9M
- Maen AbdelrahimHouston$999K
- John HeymachHouston$726K
- Putao CenHouston$720K
- Hagop KantarjianHouston$559K
- Ricardo AlvarezHouston$553K
- Eleni EfstathiouHouston$519K
- Srdan VerstovsekHouston$464K
- Guillermo Garcia-ManeroHouston$454K
- Jason WestinHouston$407K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.