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

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1699209254

Benjamin Farahnik, MD practises Dermatology in Long Beach, California. Graduated from University of Vermont College of Medicine in 2017, 9 years ago. Practices with J Robert West MD Inc, a 138-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in California.

Years since qualifying
9
Trained at
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Licensed in
CA
In the registry since
2017
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

Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.

Long Beach, CA

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Specialties & licences

Clinical & Laboratory Dermatological Immunology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207NI0002X · Licence A157788 (CA)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1699209254
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedApril 20, 2017
Last updated in NPPESFebruary 15, 2022
Certification dateFebruary 15, 2022

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyDERMATOLOGY
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Graduated 2017 (9 years in practice)
Group practice J Robert West Md Inc — 138 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.

Removal of skin lesions 2,320 times · 98th percentile
Skin biopsy 544 times · 96th percentile
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 70 times · 90th percentile
Removal or shaving of skin growth 1–10 times

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 patients814
Services billed 7,944 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age76

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.

Compensation for services other than consulting , including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $147,378 44 payments
Food and Beverage $10,015 288 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Consulting Fee $9,230 2 payments
Travel and Lodging $7,463 62 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Education $105 2 payments · educational material or training, 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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Colleagues at J Robert West MD Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 138 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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