Has Colette Benton received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,418 in general payments to Colette Benton across 53 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Colette Benton did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Colette Benton come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Colette Benton

Adult Health · Frederick, MDNPI 1780828392

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,418in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $26.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$489
Dexcom, Inc.$97
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$95
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC$91
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$87
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$76
plus $482 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,418100%

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
AbbVie	25	$489
Dexcom, Inc.	1	$97
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$95
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	4	$91
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$87
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$76
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	1	$76
Biogen	1	$70
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$61
Bristol Myers Squibb	3	$48
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	2	$42
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$40
Johnson & Johnson	2	$33
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$31
Exact Sciences	1	$30
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	2	$26
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$26

How this compares

$1,418 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 542 adult health providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$18,068

Medicare patients

162

Services billed

176

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
Esomeprazole Magnesium	12	$1,369
Pantoprazole Sodium	42	$893
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates	13	$724
Omeprazole	16	$453

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult health in Frederick

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Dawn SharerFrederick$8K
Nikole MurrayFrederick$7K
Nkechi Ileka-AdeoyeFrederick$6K
Elizabeth VandermarkFrederick$5K
Lucia NovakCamp Springs$473K
Caroline RuhlAnnapolis$315K
Joyce MiskovicHighland$264K
Christopher RobersonBaltimore$180K
Amit DhirBaltimore$97K

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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.

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