RxDoctor Payments Data

Bryan Benefiel, MD

Family Medicine · Lancaster, CANPI 1508854282

Payments from drug & device makers

$134in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $19.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$62
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$26
  • Pfizer$18
  • AbbVie$17
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$11

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$134100%

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

19
20

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.

How this compares

$134 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$187,315
Medicare patients
224
Services billed
2,863

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$35,141
EliquisApixaban15$12,671
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol20$8,655
Humalog Kwikpen U-200Insulin Lispro11$4,585
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog12$2,300
Rosuvastatin Calcium106$2,197
Ezetimibe58$1,989
Atorvastatin Calcium211$1,589
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol17$1,306
Valsartan49$1,101
Levothyroxine Sodium110$1,017
Tamsulosin Hcl35$1,001
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide17$901
Pravastatin Sodium64$823
Amlodipine Besylate133$704

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$26$35,14127 claims
PfizerEliquis$18$12,67115 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 35th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.

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