Bruce Bender
Internal Medicine · Greenwood, INNPI 1790764405
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.9% of the total across 112 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 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $968 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $31 in 2025.
Across 112 payments — averaging $12.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$239
- Pfizer$238
- GSK$220
- Novartis$92
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$66
- AbbVie$64
- plus $478 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,395100%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 27 | $239 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $238 |
| GSK | 18 | $220 |
| Novartis | 6 | $92 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $66 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $64 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 9 | $57 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $54 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $48 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $39 |
| Amgen | 2 | $39 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $25 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $24 |
| Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ELIQUIS$104
How this compares
$1,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.