RxDoctor Payments Data

Juan Benitez, MD

Gastroenterology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1699752105

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,015in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 241 payments — averaging $16.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$649
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$373
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$267
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$199
  • Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$150
  • plus $898 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,89197%
  • Education$521%
  • Gifts$722%

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

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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.

How this compares

$4,015 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$192,850
Medicare patients
852
Services billed
1,416

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
LinzessLinaclotide32$30,850
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates436$27,861
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac146$24,314
TrulancePlecanatide11$16,961
Mesalamine17$7,485
Pantoprazole Sodium536$5,407
Colestipol Hcl27$3,524
Famotidine259$3,386
Sucralfate21$3,287
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf19$3,115
Lubiprostone15$1,993
Omeprazole114$1,236
Esomeprazole Magnesium37$1,167
Buspirone Hcl91$903
Budesonide DrBudesonide13$835

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieLinzess$1,479$30,85032 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$267$24,314146 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$373$16,96111 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$150$3,11519 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 50th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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