Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Benjamin Carl Ringger, MD

Individual provider Dermatology Physician · NPI 1013170125

Benjamin Carl Ringger, MD practises Dermatology in Coeur D Alene, Idaho. Graduated from Medical College of Wisconsin in 2008, 18 years ago. Practices with North Idaho Dermatology Inc, a 15-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Florida and Idaho.

Years since qualifying
18
Trained at
Medical College of Wisconsin
Licensed in
FL, ID
In the registry since
2008
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

2288 N Merritt Creek Loop
Coeur D Alene, ID 83814-4959 Not confirmed with CMS for 13 years — call before visiting
Phone: (208) 665-7546
Fax: (208) 667-4607
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Specialties & licences

Dermatology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence M-11026 (ID)
Dermatology Physician Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence ME104994 (FL)

Record details

NPI number1013170125
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJuly 8, 2008
Last updated in NPPESFebruary 7, 2013

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyDERMATOLOGY
Medical schoolMEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN
Graduated 2008 (18 years in practice)
Group practice North Idaho Dermatology Inc — 15 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 163 times · 96th percentile
Removal of skin lesions 905 times · 92nd percentile
Skin biopsy 128 times · 79th percentile
Removal or shaving of skin growth 19 times · 71st percentile
Removal of skin cancer 554 times · 65th percentile

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients2,433
Services billed 7,716 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age75

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $485 23 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

  • Kootenai Health Hospital · Coeur D'Alene, ID · listed as Kootenai Health, Inc

Colleagues at North Idaho Dermatology Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 15 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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