RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Benning, MD

Internal Medicine · Atlanta, GANPI 1932196755

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,569in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 136 payments — averaging $18.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$598
  • GSK$388
  • Novo Nordisk$199
  • Novartis$185
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$165
  • Abbott$140
  • plus $893 from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,569100%

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

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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

$2,569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$916
Medicare patients
11
Services billed
20

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin41$51,832
TrulicityDulaglutide24$40,252
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate34$38,803
RybelsusSemaglutide17$38,335
EliquisApixaban20$23,405
LinzessLinaclotide15$12,563
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$12,266
Atrovent HfaIpratropium Bromide19$11,177
OzempicSemaglutide12$11,114
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol12$8,065
Oxtellar XrOxcarbazepine11$5,952
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate59$4,950
Metformin Hcl182$4,486
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate105$4,131
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog29$3,077

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$130$51,83241 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$199$49,44929 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$598$40,25224 claims
MerckJanuvia$72$38,80334 claims
PfizerEliquis$36$23,40520 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$64$12,26611 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$388$8,06512 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 75th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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