Max Benson, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Cumming, GANPI 1093009425
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 171 payments — averaging $33.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$521
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$472
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$373
- Pfizer$372
- Abiomed$356
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$56710%
- Food & beverage$5,05888%
- Education$1302%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 14 | $1,371 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $521 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 15 | $472 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 11 | $373 |
| Pfizer | 20 | $372 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $356 |
| Amgen | 15 | $296 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 13 | $277 |
| Novartis | 11 | $241 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $184 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $164 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $163 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $141 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $133 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $95 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $80 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $79 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $38 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- OPTIS$557
- XARELTO$383
- XIENCE SIERRA$190
- Micra$141
- Impella$140
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$129
- FFRct$128
- MitraClip$116
- WATCHMAN FLX$109
How this compares
$5,755 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 161 | $181,171 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 110 | $116,880 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 66 | $67,366 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 51 | $67,104 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 30 | $36,108 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 26 | $34,545 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 29 | $24,127 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 12 | $10,279 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 11 | $9,661 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 13 | $7,470 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 277 | $3,841 |
| Valsartan | 110 | $3,720 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 396 | $3,532 |
| Ezetimibe | 120 | $2,741 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 28 | $2,478 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $372 | $181,171161 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $277 | $116,880110 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $521 | $36,10830 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $241 | $34,54526 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $163 | $24,12729 claims |
| Novo NordiskRybelsus | $38 | $10,27912 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 35th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.
Other interventional cardiology in Cumming
- David KandzariAtlanta$3.7M
- Pradeep YadavAtlanta$3.5M
- Vasilis BabaliarosAtlanta$2.7M
- Megan CoylewrightCalhoun$2.3M
- William NicholsonAtlanta$2M
- Chandanreddy DevireddyAtlanta$1.9M
- Adam GreenbaumAtlanta$1.8M
- Amar PatelMarietta$1.8M
- Vivek RajagopalAtlanta$1.3M
- Christopher MeduriAtlanta$1.1M
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.