Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Benjamin Barnes

Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & OMM Augusta, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1760866545 CMS profile 2106541

1120 15Th St, Augusta, GA 30912

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General payments

$50,085

382 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$80,769 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2022–2025

Through program year 2025, Benjamin Barnes of Augusta, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $50,085 across 382 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $80,769 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & OMM profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,121 81
2024 General $1,974 80
2023 General $7,853 107
2022 General $28,957 77
2021 General $7,511 29
2020 General $1,618 6
2019 General $50 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Benjamin Barnes
  • Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & OMM median
  • Middle half of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & OMM
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Benjamin Barnes were reported at $2,121. Among 217 Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & OMM profiles paid that year, the median was $119 and the middle half received between $36 and $380.

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Year Benjamin Barnes Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & OMM median Middle half National median
2019 $50 $92 $27–$283 $163
2020 $1,618 $85 $20–$411 $114
2021 $7,511 $120 $32–$548 $132
2022 $28,957 $96 $32–$518 $149
2023 $7,853 $92 $33–$328 $160
2024 $1,974 $122 $35–$378 $164
2025 $2,121 $119 $36–$380 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Biogen, Inc. $38,285 39 payments
  2. Argenx US, Inc. $4,247 18 payments
  3. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,390 42 payments
  4. Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. $726 48 payments
  5. AbbVie, Inc. $662 29 payments
  6. UCB, Inc. $529 17 payments
  7. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $418 17 payments
  8. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $417 23 payments
  9. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $397 21 payments
  10. Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $277 14 payments
  11. Other $2,737 114 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $29,513 14 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $8,772 356 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $6,369 5 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $5,407 4 payments
  5. Education $24 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. SPINRAZA $35,568 32 payments
  2. ULTOMIRIS $918 28 payments
  3. RADICAVA $588 38 payments
  4. Radicava ORS $442 29 payments
  5. VYVGART $405 6 payments
  6. INGREZZA $370 20 payments
  7. BOTOX $359 17 payments
  8. Rystiggo $320 9 payments
  9. HYQVIA $307 12 payments
  10. VYVGART Hytrulo $279 11 payments
  11. Other $4,969 220 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 14 drugs

Part D claims

446

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$3,614,126

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

41.3%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Radicava Ors Edaravone Brand 136 $1,852,656
Vyvgart Efgartigimod Alfa-Fcab Brand 18 $1,141,870
Evrysdi Risdiplam Brand 16 $429,565
Relyvrio Sod Phenylbutyrat/Taurursodiol Brand 14 $164,088
Glycopyrrolate Generic 29 $8,924
Riluzole Generic 41 $6,130
Pyridostigmine Bromide Generic 28 $3,957
Mycophenolate Mofetil Generic 28 $3,450
Baclofen Generic 36 $1,442
Gabapentin Generic 37 $773

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 14 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 36 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$30,985

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

205

Average age 69

Services billed

511

90 women, 115 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 51%
Diabetes 35%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
Depression 30%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
COPD 20%
Heart failure 19%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 32 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ULTOMIRIS
$295 — —
VYVGART Hytrulo
$172 18 —
AMVUTTRA
$125 — —
RADICAVA
$122 136 —
Radicava ORS
$122 136 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

382 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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