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

Carolina Benjamin

Neurological Surgery Miami, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1447541800 CMS profile 1394790

1095 Nw 14Th Ter, Miami, FL 33136

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General payments

$66,426

112 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$2,000

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Carolina Benjamin of Miami, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $66,426 across 112 general payments and $2,000 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 88th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,834 10
2024 General $24,285 15
2023 General $4,898 32
2022 General $23,819 20
2022 Research $2,000 1
2021 General $10,209 28
2020 General $53 1
2019 General $328 6

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Carolina Benjamin
  • Neurological Surgery median
  • Middle half of Neurological Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Carolina Benjamin were reported at $2,834. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.

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Year Carolina Benjamin Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $328 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $53 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $10,209 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $23,819 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $4,898 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $24,285 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $2,834 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Stryker Corporation $48,559 76 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $15,492 17 payments
  3. Elekta, Inc. $1,018 3 payments
  4. KLS-Martin L.P. $323 3 payments
  5. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $181 2 payments
  6. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $150 1 payment
  7. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $146 1 payment
  8. Providence Medical Technology, Inc. $140 1 payment
  9. Penumbra, Inc. $119 1 payment
  10. Globus Medical, Inc. $95 1 payment
  11. Other $202 6 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $53,505 15 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $7,962 39 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $3,460 56 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $1,000 1 payment
  5. Honoraria $500 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CORE $43,638 31 payments
  2. SONOPET IQ $38,250 2 payments
  3. StealthStation $7,395 4 payments
  4. STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM $3,370 6 payments
  5. N/A $2,495 28 payments
  6. STEALTH AUTOGUIDE SYSTEM $1,305 1 payment
  7. UNIVERSAL NEURO 3 $1,268 7 payments
  8. STRAIGHTSHOT $1,000 1 payment
  9. LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE ICON $884 2 payments
  10. LEKSELL STEREOTACTIC SYSTEM $884 2 payments
  11. Other $5,303 34 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Hubly Incorporated $2,000 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

27

Median for Neurosurgery: 83

Drug cost

$440

Median for Neurosurgery: $872

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Neurosurgery: 16.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Dexamethasone Generic 11 $235
Levetiracetam Generic 16 $205

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 2,779 Part D prescribers listed as Neurosurgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 36 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$80,331

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

166

Average age 72

Services billed

346

99 women, 67 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 49%
Diabetes 40%
Ischemic heart disease 33%
Depression 33%
Cancer 31%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Osteoporosis 20%

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.

Records

113 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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