Question 1

Has Omar Benitez received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,916,436 in general payments to Omar Benitez across 2,959 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Omar Benitez did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Question 3

Where does this information about Omar Benitez come from?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Company	Payments	Total
Modernatx, Inc.	2,764	$4,317,606
Pfizer	84	$1,984,680
Taro Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	25	$207,850
AbbVie(2 entities)	26	$142,202
Evofem Biosciences, Inc.	28	$137,959
Ferring International Pharmascience Center US	11	$33,027
Genentech, Inc.	7	$26,782
AstraZeneca	1	$23,117
Shire North American Group Inc	7	$21,907
Janssen Research & Development, LLC	1	$13,000
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$6,000
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$2,137
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	1	$150
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$20

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