Scott Beman, MD
Surgery · Allentown, PANPI 1619977840
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,342 of the $3,214 with a category attached, or 72.9%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 54.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,248 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $78 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $103.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Boston Scientific$785
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$305
- Johnson & Johnson$176
- Covidien LP$100
- BD$78
- plus $28 from 2 others
Across 43 payments — averaging $1228.48 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Johnson & Johnson$53K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,34273%
- Food & beverage$87227%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 14 | $1,741 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $785 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $305 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $176 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $100 |
| BD | 1 | $78 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$3,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Allentown
- Maher El ChaarAllentown$667K
- Paul CesanekAllentown$469K
- Maneesh AilawadiAllentown$40K
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- Glenn SteeleDanville$698K
- George EidPittsburgh$619K
- Clark GerhartPlains$317K
- Irina YermilovPlymouth Meeting$315K
- Eric PauliHershey$202K
- Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
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.