Dennis Birenbaum
Hematology & Oncology · Dallas, TXNPI 1538119045
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 307 payments — averaging $82.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$16K
- Amgen$3K
- Novartis$2K
- Incyte Corporation$553
- Pfizer$533
- Merck$348
- plus $3K from 42 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,79574%
- Education$69911%
- Other$94815%
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.
How this compares
$25,373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
Other hematology & oncology in Dallas
- Prapti PatelDallas$10.3M
- Farrukh AwanDallas$8.4M
- Elizabeth MaherDallas$5.5M
- Kevin CourtneyDallas$4.8M
- Jaime BrugarolasDallas$2.8M
- Syed KazmiDallas$2.5M
- Elias JabbourHouston$264.1M
- Luhua WangHouston$79.6M
- Courtney DinardoHouston$74M
- Jorge Cortes-FrancoHouston$59.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.