James Benke
Cardiovascular Disease · Bel Air, MDNPI 1376104869
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.9% of the total across 69 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,436, 5.9 times the $244 reported in 2020.
Across 69 payments — averaging $42.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AOP Health US, LLC$675
- Abiomed$345
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$334
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$185
- Amgen$147
- Johnson & Johnson$129
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,81897%
- Education$903%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $675 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $345 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 28 | $334 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $185 |
| Amgen | 3 | $147 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $129 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $119 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $114 |
| Merck | 1 | $112 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $110 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $59 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $54 |
| Bayer | 2 | $49 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Abbott | 2 | $40 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $39 |
| Novartis | 2 | $36 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $25 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,908 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.
Other cardiovascular disease in Bel Air
- Joyce ZenoBel Air$17K
- Niteen MilakBel Air$15K
- Navin KapurBaltimore$1.5M
- Michael BlahaBaltimore$609K
- Sanjay RajagopalanBaltimore$521K
- Allen TaylorN Bethesda$456K
- David GoorayLargo$333K
- Erin MichosBaltimore$257K
- Seth MartinBaltimore$166K
- Erika FellerBaltimore$121K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.