James Benenati
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Miami, FLNPI 1346222825
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $82,752 of the $103,881 with a category attached, or 79.7%. Penumbra, Inc. accounts for 81.8% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $54,954 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $110 in 2025. Among vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 155 payments — averaging $670.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$85K
- Sirtex Medical Inc$15K
- Endologix LLC$1K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$333
- Argon Medical Devices, Inc.$299
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$202
- plus $1K from 24 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $992.56 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.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$13K
- Endologix LLC$5K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Cordis Corporation$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,6009%
- Speaking & faculty fees$82,75280%
- Travel & lodging$6,5226%
- Food & beverage$5,0075%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 65 | $84,924 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 20 | $15,219 |
| Endologix LLC | 7 | $1,406 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $333 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 5 | $299 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $202 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $187 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $132 |
| Intact Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $110 |
| Mercator Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $104 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $90 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $88 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $58 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Abbott | 2 | $44 |
| EKOS Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $34 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $20 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $5 |
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
$103,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 329 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Florida.
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Other vascular & interventional radiology in Miami
- Ripal GandhiMiami$2.5M
- George OliveiraMiami$666K
- Govindarajan NarayananMiami$343K
- Robert BeasleyMiami$330K
- Paul RotoloMiami$171K
- Brian SchiroMiami$160K
- Douglas ColdwellMiami$49K
- Keith PereiraMiami$32K
- Brian BaigorriMiami$31K
- Adarsh VermaMiami$25K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.