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

Selim Benbadis

Neurology Tampa, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1710902689 CMS profile 258738

2 Tampa General Cir, Stc 7Th Floor, Tampa, FL 33606

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General payments

$2,092,223

3,061 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

$1,010,691 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Selim Benbadis of Tampa, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,092,223 across 3,061 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $1,010,691 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 99th percentile of Neurology 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 $322,649 485
2024 General $334,322 486
2023 General $318,151 460
2022 General $327,614 448
2021 General $310,804 408
2020 General $166,691 233
2019 General $311,992 541

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Selim Benbadis
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Selim Benbadis were reported at $322,649. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Selim Benbadis Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $311,992 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $166,691 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $310,804 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $327,614 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $318,151 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $334,322 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $322,649 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. SK Life Science, Inc. $369,163 501 payments
  2. UCB, Inc. $365,425 558 payments
  3. Neurelis, Inc. $282,186 411 payments
  4. Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. $221,954 285 payments
  5. Eisai Inc. $218,239 354 payments
  6. Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. $199,181 282 payments
  7. LivaNova USA, Inc. $152,021 320 payments
  8. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $97,026 94 payments
  9. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. $85,127 111 payments
  10. GW Pharma Limited $27,286 10 payments
  11. Other $74,615 135 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 $1,201,685 503 payments
  2. Honoraria $373,293 141 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $280,562 1,277 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $178,398 80 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $58,285 1,060 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Epidiolex $443,567 574 payments
  2. Fintepla $371,808 535 payments
  3. XCOPRI $327,528 407 payments
  4. VALTOCO $258,941 381 payments
  5. Fycompa Neurology $213,401 351 payments
  6. APTIOM $105,994 144 payments
  7. FYCOMPA Neurology $91,986 93 payments
  8. VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR $54,797 93 payments
  9. VNS Therapy $49,681 117 payments
  10. Cenobamate $39,353 48 payments
  11. Other $70,937 194 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 · 46 drugs

Part D claims

4,106

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$3,578,531

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

30.2%

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
Epidiolex Cannabidiol (Cbd) Brand 308 $1,231,946
Sabril Vigabatrin Brand 13 $435,748
Xcopri Cenobamate Brand 201 $298,159
Fintepla Fenfluramine Hcl Brand 16 $296,111
Fycompa Perampanel Brand 129 $193,362
Vimpat Lacosamide Brand 111 $149,231
Aptiom Eslicarbazepine Acetate Brand 40 $113,701
Lamictal Lamotrigine Brand 66 $113,426
Briviact Brivaracetam Brand 56 $101,385
Onfi Clobazam Brand 27 $89,389

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 46 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 · 27 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$47,177

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

309

Average age 61

Services billed

611

153 women, 156 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 69%
Arthritis 47%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Depression 36%
Chronic kidney disease 34%
Diabetes 30%
Heart failure 24%
Atrial fibrillation 24%

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
Fintepla
$90,663 16 —
FYCOMPA
$74,858 129 —
Epidiolex
$70,398 308 —
VALTOCO
$45,075 52 —
XCOPRI
$26,837 201 —

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

3,061 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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