Record · Provider
Catherine Benson
Charleston, SC. NPI 1689159345. Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered.
What was reported, 2019–2025
- $2,967
- General payments
- 124 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.
- $0
- Research payments
- Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this clinician named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.
- $0
- Ownership and investment
- The value of a stake this clinician or an immediate family member held.
- 0
- Disputed
- This clinician has contested none of the payments reported about them.
How this compares
- General payments: $2,967, 2019–2025
- By the amount companies reported, 323rd among the 44,069 profiles with general payments in Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered.
General payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total Nationally 292,473rd of 1,688,859 In South Carolina 5,244th of 27,004 In Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered 323rd of 44,069 Profiles below it nationally More than 82% Share of the national total < 0.1%
What the payments were
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| Nature of payment | Amount |
|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $2,614 |
| Travel and Lodging | $353 |
Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.
By program year
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| Program year | General | Research |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $975 | $0 |
| 2024 | $791 | $0 |
| 2023 | $848 | $0 |
| 2022 | $229 | $0 |
| 2021 | $123 | $0 |
CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.
CMS’s file covers 2019–2025. It holds no payments to Catherine Benson in 2019–2020.
The record
- National Provider Identifier
- 1689159345
- The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.
- Specialty
- Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered
- Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers, in CMS's taxonomy.
- Licensed in
- SC
- The state of the license CMS lists first.
- Recipient type
- Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner
- How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.
Medicare prescribing
CMS holds no Part D record for NPI 1689159345 in the most recent year we hold, and that has two readings it does not distinguish between: this provider billed Medicare Part D for nothing that year, or they billed it for ten claims or fewer, which CMS removes from the file before publishing to protect the patients behind them. It does not mean the data is missing, and it does not mean this provider writes no prescriptions — anything paid for privately, by Medicaid, or by a patient is not in this file at all.
Elsewhere
- Payments to doctors in South Carolina — what was reported across the state this clinician practises in.
- What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
- This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
- The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.
Data retrieved
Sources
- Open Payments — payments grouped by physician — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
Compiled automatically from Open Payments — payments grouped by physician by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built