Oliver Benton
Urology · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1386740082
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $22.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$702
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$394
- AbbVie$318
- Teleflex LLC$245
- Johnson & Johnson$182
- AstraZeneca$124
- plus $769 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,62496%
- Education$1124%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 20 | $702 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 25 | $394 |
| AbbVie | 23 | $318 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $245 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $182 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $124 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $117 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Dornier Medtech America, Inc | 3 | $70 |
| Bayer | 5 | $68 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $62 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Neotract Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $42 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 2 | $35 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $24 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $18 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $11 |
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.
- UroLift System$245
How this compares
$2,736 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 276 urology providers in Tennessee.
Other urology in Chattanooga
- Amar SinghChattanooga$160K
- Anand ShridharaniChattanooga$133K
- Argil WheelockChattanooga$47K
- Jeffrey MullinsChattanooga$18K
- Benjamin WaldorfChattanooga$16K
- Gautam JayramNashville$16.1M
- David MorrisHendersonville$7.3M
- David PensonNashville$4.4M
- L KnollNashville$2.1M
- David GubinMemphis$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.