Inga Benson, NP
Nurse Practitioner · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1699932293
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 252 payments — averaging $19.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$782
- AbbVie$707
- Novartis$571
- Johnson & Johnson$551
- Boehringer Ingelheim$458
- AstraZeneca$419
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,948100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 43 | $782 |
| AbbVie | 31 | $707 |
| Novartis | 35 | $571 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 28 | $551 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 22 | $458 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 28 | $419 |
| Merck | 18 | $323 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $292 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $172 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $169 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $131 |
| Gilead | 4 | $88 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $71 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $24 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Electromed, 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.
- XARELTO$125
How this compares
$4,948 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,393 nurse practitioner providers in North Carolina.
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 nurse practitioner in Winston Salem
- Olivia OgburnWinston Salem$70K
- Amy MitchellWinston Salem$33K
- Mary SandsWinston Salem$32K
- Ladonna CookWinston Salem$23K
- Gillian WinterWinston Salem$18K
- Christine ZdebWinston Salem$15K
- Sandrivette JohnsonRaleigh$573K
- Skyler RogersPinehurst$174K
- Jamie DinerDurham$170K
- Ayeshia WrightMocksville$145K
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.