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

Benny Sanchez

Pain Medicine The Woodlands, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1801892153 CMS profile 172242

25329 Interstate 45 B, The Woodlands, TX 77380

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General payments

$5,055

302 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Benny Sanchez of The Woodlands, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,055 across 302 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 66th percentile of Pain Medicine 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 $387 31
2024 General $219 24
2023 General $335 33
2022 General $409 38
2021 General $1,099 14
2020 General $651 43
2019 General $1,954 119

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Benny Sanchez
  • Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Benny Sanchez were reported at $387. Among 2,779 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $458 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,401.

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Year Benny Sanchez Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $1,954 $498 $126–$1,682 $163
2020 $651 $284 $80–$910 $114
2021 $1,099 $399 $112–$1,219 $132
2022 $409 $455 $137–$1,484 $149
2023 $335 $484 $128–$1,495 $160
2024 $219 $498 $131–$1,540 $164
2025 $387 $458 $124–$1,401 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RedHill Biopharma Inc. $1,276 28 payments
  2. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $1,194 121 payments
  3. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $618 43 payments
  4. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $615 44 payments
  5. Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. $445 14 payments
  6. Pfizer Inc. $287 19 payments
  7. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $183 10 payments
  8. Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. $118 7 payments
  9. AbbVie, Inc. $98 5 payments
  10. Shionogi Inc $70 4 payments
  11. Other $153 7 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,225 301 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $830 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Movantik Opioid Antagonist $1,276 28 payments
  2. RELISTOR $1,094 120 payments
  3. Morphabond ER $615 44 payments
  4. XTAMPZA $590 41 payments
  5. LYRICA $205 13 payments
  6. MOVANTIK Neuroscience $183 10 payments
  7. BUNAVAIL 4.2 mg single pouch $145 8 payments
  8. BUNAVAIL 6.3 mg 30-count box $145 8 payments
  9. BUNAVAIL 2.1 mg single pouch $145 8 payments
  10. BUNAVAIL 4.2 mg 30-count box $145 8 payments
  11. Other $1,212 53 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 · 49 drugs

Part D claims

4,818

Median for Anesthesiology: 322

Drug cost

$1,571,540

Median for Anesthesiology: $8,738

Branded share of claims

44.5%

Median for Anesthesiology: 25.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Relistor Methylnaltrexone Bromide Brand 338 $835,694
Xtampza Er Oxycodone Myristate Brand 429 $287,981
Ztlido Lidocaine Brand 99 $58,768
Movantik Naloxegol Oxalate Brand 143 $56,977
Belbuca Buprenorphine Hcl Brand 71 $47,043
Ubrelvy Ubrogepant Brand 25 $46,502
Buprenorphine Generic 221 $46,470
Qulipta Atogepant Brand 22 $26,864
Hysingla Er Hydrocodone Bitartrate Brand 38 $23,246
Oxycontin Oxycodone Hcl Brand 23 $18,252

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 49 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 3,517 Part D prescribers listed as Anesthesiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 8 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$21,213

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

40

Average age 69

Services billed

228

27 women, 13 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 70%
Arthritis 55%
Depression 38%

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

5 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
RELISTOR
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $155
$155 338 —
XTAMPZA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $29
$29 429 —
Nucynta
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $13
$13 — —
UBRELVY
  • AbbVie, Inc. $11
$11 25 —
QULIPTA
  • AbbVie, Inc. $11
$11 22 —

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.

Records

302 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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