What is Al Benson's specialty?

Al Benson (NPI 1891761532) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Medical Oncology in Chicago, IL.

Where does Al Benson practice?

Al Benson practices in Chicago, IL, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1891761532.

How much does Medicare pay Al Benson?

Al Benson (NPI 1891761532) received approximately $1.4M in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 273 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1891761532

Al BensonMD

Medical OncologyChicago, ILI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

749

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

25,759

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$597K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 96 Medical Oncology providers in IL — top quintile (cohort median 1,343).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$172K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

100.0%

Top prescribed drugs

Trifluridine/Tipiracil Hcl24 claims

Lipase/Protease/Amylase14 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

95.2

Quality

83.0

Cost

0.0

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.85%

APM Entity

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2025

Total received

$26K

Payment records

By payment type

Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program$15K

Consulting Fee$10K

Food and Beverage$878

Top paying entities

Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program$15K

Consulting Fee$10K

Food and Beverage$878

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Al Benson's patients come from & go

Directional shared-patient flow from Medicare claims — who sends patients to this provider (inbound) and where this provider's patients go next (outbound). 17 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	222	2,361
Sheetal Kircher Hematology-Oncology · Chicago, IL	54	584
Seema Singhal Hematology-Oncology · Chicago, IL	42	298
Mark Agulnik Medical Oncology · Los Angeles, CA	42	314
O'BRIEN, BRIDGET	35	425
Mary Mulcahy Medical Oncology · Chicago, IL	32	181
Jane Winter Hematology · Chicago, IL	22	86
Jeanne Horowitz Diagnostic Radiology · Chicago, IL	19	67
Rishi Agrawal Diagnostic Radiology · Houston, TX	19	98
PETRICH, ADAM	18	128
Vahid Yaghmai Diagnostic Radiology · Chicago, IL	17	50
ENDEAVOR HEALTH CLINICAL OPERATIONS	16	177

Refers patients to

Outbound — where patients go next

No outbound pairs above the suppression threshold.

Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). Direction = a beneficiary seen by the first provider, then the second, within 30 days; a proxy for referral, not a documented referral. Pairs with fewer than 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.

CROSS-REFERENCE

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