Bryan Benn, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Cleveland, OHNPI 1144545930
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $69,579 of the $96,028 with a category attached, or 72.5%. Medtronic accounts for 79.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $33,797 and has fallen 93.2% since, to $2,287 in 2025. Among pulmonary disease clinicians in OH 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 236 payments — averaging $406.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$77K
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Covidien LP$6K
- ERBE USA Inc$1K
- Pulmonx Corporation$566
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$500
- plus $859 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,7185%
- Speaking & faculty fees$69,57972%
- Travel & lodging$13,10214%
- Food & beverage$4,2804%
- Education$4,3505%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 160 | $76,525 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 33 | $10,600 |
| Covidien LP | 23 | $5,979 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $1,000 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 9 | $566 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 2 | $500 |
| US Endoscopy | 1 | $450 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $125 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 1 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $63 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $23 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- ILLUMISITE$70,979
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,077
- superDimension$5,658
- ION$3,000
- Arcpoint$1,076
- VIO 300 D$1,000
- APC2$1,000
- CRYO$1,000
- Photofrin$500
- TRUFREEZE$450
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$209
- GENERAL PULMONARY$125
- GALAXY$122
- CHARTIS CATHETER$120
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$120
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$120
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$120
How this compares
$96,028 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 571 pulmonary disease providers in Ohio.
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.
Other pulmonary disease in Cleveland
- Kristin HighlandCleveland$551K
- Joseph CiceniaCleveland$350K
- Michael MachuzakCleveland$286K
- Marie BudevCleveland$159K
- Leslie TolleCleveland$136K
- Elliott DasenbrookCleveland$114K
- James StollerCleveland$101K
- Gustavo Heresi DavilaCleveland$98K
- Thomas GildeaCleveland$69K
- Daniel CulverCleveland$68K
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.