Michael Bentze, DO
Family Medicine · Bradenton, FLNPI 1407840622
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 76 payments — averaging $22.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$309
- AstraZeneca$188
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$165
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$92
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$88
- Johnson & Johnson$69
- plus $766 from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,66599%
- Education$121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 13 | $309 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 8 | $188 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $165 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $92 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 5 | $88 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $69 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $54 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $50 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $49 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $35 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $32 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $27 |
| Bayer | 1 | $24 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Amgen | 1 | $22 |
| Gilead | 1 | $22 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $15 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Novo Nordisk | 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.
How this compares
$1,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 114 | $142,140 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 67 | $81,630 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 32 | $65,623 |
| EliquisApixaban | 58 | $65,445 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 14 | $26,059 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 22 | $23,158 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 27 | $21,979 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 14 | $15,334 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 27 | $13,588 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 61 | $5,851 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 23 | $4,292 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 529 | $3,856 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 293 | $3,841 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 378 | $3,807 |
| Valsartan | 120 | $3,423 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $35 | $142,140114 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $13 | $107,68981 claims |
| PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid | $15 | $66,87574 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $15 | $65,62332 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $69 | $23,15822 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $309 | $5,85161 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 70th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.
Other family medicine in Bradenton
- Eric FolkensBradenton$5.4M
- Hugh ColemanDaytona Beach$115.5M
- Alexander WhiteDaytona Beach$69.7M
- Ronald SurowitzJupiter$38.3M
- Bruce RankinDeland$36.7M
- Keila HooverMiami$33.7M
- John NardandreaOcala$30.8M
- Jorge CasoMiami$22.6M
- Sharrell CooperPalm Coast$16.9M
- Christopher GallowayMelbourne$15.6M
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.