Hugo Benalcazar
Neurological Surgery · Bel Air, MDNPI 1366480972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $361,321 of the $380,182 with a category attached, or 95.0%. Medtronic accounts for 80.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $74,215 and has fallen 89.3% since, to $7,974 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 88 payments — averaging $4320.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$307K
- Altus Partners. LLC$73K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$116
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$91
- Johnson & Johnson$41
- Si-bone, Inc.$35
- plus $145 from 8 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2000.00 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$2K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$361,32195%
- Consulting fees$6,5002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,3691%
- Travel & lodging$5,9362%
- Food & beverage$1,7570%
- Gifts$2990%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 66 | $306,908 |
| Altus Partners. LLC | 9 | $72,846 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $41 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $15 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Stryker | 1 | $12 |
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.
- RIALTO SI FUSION SYSTEM$167,358
- RIALTO$138,864
- Fuji Cervical Plate System$31,933
How this compares
$380,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 133 neurological surgery providers in Maryland.
Other neurological surgery in Bel Air
- Alexander CoonBaltimore$2.7M
- Charles SansurBaltimore$1.8M
- Faheem SandhuClinton$1.5M
- Nicholas TheodoreBaltimore$833K
- Daniel SciubbaBaltimore$789K
- Henry BremBaltimore$353K
- Ira GaronzikBaltimore$297K
- James ConwayBaltimore$273K
- Gary DixAnnapolis$230K
- Jean VoyadzisClinton$200K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.