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

Kathleen Benson

Interventional Cardiology Las Vegas, NV Medical Doctor

NPI 1235207309 CMS profile 11033

4432 S Eastern Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89119

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General payments

$6,189

263 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, Kathleen Benson of Las Vegas, NV is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,189 across 263 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 44th percentile of Interventional Cardiology 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 $968 38
2024 General $808 35
2023 General $472 26
2022 General $591 34
2021 General $441 20
2020 General $492 15
2019 General $2,418 95

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Kathleen Benson
  • Interventional Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Interventional Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Kathleen Benson were reported at $968. Among 6,173 Interventional Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,092 and the middle half received between $366 and $3,019.

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Year Kathleen Benson Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,418 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $492 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $441 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $591 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $472 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $808 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $968 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $894 49 payments
  2. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $646 6 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $499 27 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $485 26 payments
  5. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $463 29 payments
  6. Abiomed $462 6 payments
  7. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $397 15 payments
  8. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $357 18 payments
  9. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $327 23 payments
  10. Abbott Laboratories $244 5 payments
  11. Other $1,414 59 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,167 262 payments
  2. Education $22 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ENTRESTO $573 31 payments
  2. VERQUVO $548 20 payments
  3. LifeVest $463 29 payments
  4. Impella $462 6 payments
  5. Repatha $380 21 payments
  6. XARELTO $327 23 payments
  7. ELIQUIS $322 18 payments
  8. LEQVIO $282 16 payments
  9. CAMZYOS $186 7 payments
  10. CardioMEMS HF System $186 2 payments
  11. Other $3,117 131 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 · 50 drugs

Part D claims

3,918

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 2,236

Drug cost

$393,157

Median for Interventional Cardiology: $380,412

Branded share of claims

19.8%

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 27.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 175 $224,767
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 47 $50,758
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 22 $34,989
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 11 $11,444
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 11 $10,643
Ranolazine Er Ranolazine Brand 81 $10,156
Isosorbide Dinitrate Generic 18 $4,700
Ezetimibe Generic 118 $4,442
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 287 $3,479
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 363 $3,085

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 50 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 4,694 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 34 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$174,943

Of which drugs: $959

Medicare patients

596

Average age 74

Services billed

2,570

330 women, 266 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%
Ischemic heart disease 64%
Arthritis 51%
Diabetes 43%
Heart failure 43%
Chronic kidney disease 38%
Atrial fibrillation 28%
COPD 25%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 Office 52 212 $959

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 10 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
VERQUVO
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $151
$151 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $132
$132 — —
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $116
$116 — —
Arcalyst
  • Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $102
$102 — —
ELIQUIS
  • PFIZER INC. $54
$54 175 —

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

263 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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