Hassan Bencheqroun, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Palm Springs, CANPI 1174786594
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (36.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. GSK accounts for 76.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,753 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $47 in 2025.
Across 38 payments — averaging $144.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$4K
- Advanced Respiratory, Inc$533
- Johnson & Johnson$150
- Bayer$125
- United Therapeutics Corporation$123
- Boston Scientific$120
- plus $262 from 9 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $2235.48 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.
- GSK$26K
- AstraZeneca$19K
- Insmed, Inc.$10K
- Novartis$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00036%
- Travel & lodging$1,92735%
- Food & beverage$1,56428%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 16 | $4,178 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 5 | $533 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $150 |
| Bayer | 2 | $125 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $123 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $120 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $47 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $40 |
| Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $35 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $26 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Breathe Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Hill-rom Company, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $18 |
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.
How this compares
$5,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 715 critical care medicine providers in California.
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 critical care medicine in Palm Springs
- Cedric Franklin RutlandRiverside$3.2M
- Chinh PhanSacramento$467K
- Timothy AlbertsonSacramento$418K
- Stephen ChenMonterey Park$394K
- Bassam YaghmourOrange$376K
- Xuanha WhiteSan Diego$343K
- Ken YonedaSacramento$173K
- Praveen AkuthotaSan Diego$169K
- Ivan ChengSan Francisco$162K
- Brian ShermanOxnard$147K
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.