Ethan Benardete, MD
Neurological Surgery · Temple, TXNPI 1659366987
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,461 of the $6,245 with a category attached, or 71.4%. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.8%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,972 and has fallen 53.3% since, to $921 in 2025.
Across 107 payments — averaging $58.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$885
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$633
- Imperative Care, Inc$527
- Si-bone, Inc.$301
- plus $1K from 16 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $1727.27 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.
- Medtronic$38K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,78129%
- Food & beverage$4,46171%
- Gifts$30%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 17 | $1,489 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 21 | $1,179 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 7 | $885 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $633 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 14 | $527 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $301 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $203 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 2 | $189 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $168 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 5 | $155 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 7 | $140 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 4 | $79 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $44 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Perfuze Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Scientia Vascular | 2 | $26 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- TREVO$713
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$645
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$645
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$645
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$645
- TRUFILL$591
- CATALYST$348
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$345
- Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$315
- iFuse Implant$279
- Axium$263
- UNID_PASS$170
- CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System$168
- Carrier Delivery Catheter$153
- O-ARM$140
- PULSERIDER$136
- TARGET$118
- SURPASS EVOLVE$118
How this compares
$6,245 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
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 neurological surgery in Temple
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
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.