Carolina Benjamin, MD
Neurological Surgery · Miami, FLNPI 1447541800
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 112 payments — averaging $593.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$49K
- Medtronic$15K
- Elekta, Inc.$1K
- Kls-martin L.p.$323
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$181
- Zimmer Biomet$150
- plus $702 from 8 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2000.00 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.
- Hubly Incorporated$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$53,50581%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5002%
- Travel & lodging$7,96212%
- Food & beverage$3,4605%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 76 | $48,559 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $15,492 |
| Elekta, Inc. | 3 | $1,018 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $323 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $181 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $150 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $95 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $79 |
| Axogen | 1 | $47 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $43 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $34 |
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.
- CORE$43,220
- SONOPET IQ$38,250
- StealthStation$7,395
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$3,335
- N/A$2,094
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$1,618
- STEALTH AUTOGUIDE SYSTEM$1,305
- STRAIGHTSHOT$1,000
- LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE ICON$884
- LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE PERFEXION$884
- LEKSELL GAMMAPLAN$884
- Leksell Stereotactic System$884
- LEKSELL VANTAGE STEREOTACTIC SYSTEM$884
- SPINEMAP$175
- NA$158
- SCOPIS ENT$157
- Neuro Plating System$150
- CONDUIT$146
- CAVUX Cervical Cage$140
- DTRAX Spinal System$140
How this compares
$66,426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Dexamethasone | 11 | $235 |
| Levetiracetam | 16 | $205 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Miami
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Michael WangMiami$2.5M
- Wilson AsforaMiami$1.3M
- Steven VanniMiami$1.2M
- Robert StarkeMiami$1M
- Cesar GuerreroMiami$914K
- Santiago FiguereoMiami$876K
- Jonathan JagidMiami$765K
- Timur UrakovMiami$652K
- Samuel GoldsmitMiami$519K
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.