Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

MELISSA ANNE BENSON

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Nurse Practitioner

NPI
1093096422
CMS profile
10519653
Location
CHARLOTTE, NC

General Payments · PY2021–2024

$2,359.10

  • Reported across 100 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$507.09

19 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $507.09 19

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $259.14 7
PY2022 $424.18 17
PY2023 $1,168.69 57
PY2024 $507.09 19

Payment records · PY2024 (19)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $29.01 06/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106515218 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $20.19 01/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117868530 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $21.23 09/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117868532 CMS
Electromed, Inc. $14.73 06/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137880168 CMS
Electromed, Inc. $12.45 07/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137880173 CMS
Gilead Sciences, Inc. $30.11 03/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133647098 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $19.71 01/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078071164 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $23.56 02/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078071366 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $21.83 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078071736 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $25.89 05/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078071516 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $20.11 06/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078071588 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $23.78 09/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078071438 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $17.81 09/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078073468 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $26.63 01/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086632955 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $30.94 05/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086632977 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $22.85 07/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100234552 CMS
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $19.27 08/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113925326 CMS
PFIZER INC. $17.31 06/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131695979 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $109.68 05/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153534386 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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