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

Raymond Benza

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Norfolk, VA Medical Doctor

NPI 1366497430 CMS profile 152597

600 Gresham Dr, Norfolk, VA 23507

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General payments

$140,555

174 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$29,229

Paid to them · 13 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$623,525 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2023

Through program year 2025, Raymond Benza of Norfolk, VA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $140,555 across 174 general payments and $29,229 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $623,525 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 91st percentile of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

11 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $14,509 28
2025 Research $2,600 3
2024 General $16,748 39
2024 Research $6,240 2
2023 General $10,385 14
2023 Research $15,100 4
2022 General $17,898 21
2022 Research $5,289 4
2021 General $25,115 15
2020 General $27,233 12
2019 General $28,666 45

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Raymond Benza
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Raymond Benza were reported at $14,509. Among 967 Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,024 and the middle half received between $289 and $6,890.

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Year Raymond Benza Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $28,666 $863 $224–$4,562 $163
2020 $27,233 $452 $122–$3,992 $114
2021 $25,115 $550 $159–$3,571 $132
2022 $17,898 $729 $221–$4,357 $149
2023 $10,385 $1,002 $309–$5,827 $160
2024 $16,748 $931 $273–$5,204 $164
2025 $14,509 $1,024 $289–$6,890 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. United Therapeutics Corporation $35,000 55 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $28,088 40 payments
  3. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $24,771 20 payments
  4. Insmed, Inc. $17,626 12 payments
  5. Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $10,078 17 payments
  6. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $7,538 6 payments
  7. Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $6,000 1 payment
  8. Acceleron Pharma, Inc. $5,340 1 payment
  9. AstraZeneca UK Limited $3,480 1 payment
  10. Eko Devices, Inc. $1,327 3 payments
  11. Other $1,308 18 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $110,650 44 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $11,668 14 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $8,940 3 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $7,961 106 payments
  5. Long term medical supply or device loan $1,327 3 payments
  6. Education $10 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NONE $15,547 9 payments
  2. AMPLATZER Occluders $10,100 1 payment
  3. OPSUMIT $7,396 10 payments
  4. Adempas $7,375 3 payments
  5. CardioMEMS HF System Heart failure $4,500 5 payments
  6. HeartMate $4,050 4 payments
  7. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev $2,019 2 payments
  8. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device $1,500 1 payment
  9. HeartMate Touch $1,500 1 payment
  10. CardioMEMS HF System Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure $1,437 7 payments
  11. Other $7,400 79 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. United Therapeutics Corporation $23,940 9 payments
  2. Insmed, Inc. $5,289 4 payments

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 18 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$33,334

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

114

Average age 75

Services billed

349

43 women, 71 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%
Heart failure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Chronic kidney disease 72%
Atrial fibrillation 68%
Diabetes 64%
Arthritis 54%
COPD 32%

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 8 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
TYVASO
  • United Therapeutics Corporation $224
$224 — —
ORENITRAM
  • United Therapeutics Corporation $97
$97 — —
TREPROSTINIL
  • Sandoz Inc. $64
$64 — —
REMODULIN
  • United Therapeutics Corporation $57
$57 — —
OPSUMIT
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC $33
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $20
$53 — —

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

187 reported

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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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