Ruth M Benca, MDPHD

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.

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.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Colleagues at Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2621 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Ademola Olubusola Aderoju, MD Internal Medicine Physician · North Wilkesboro, NC
• Kim Askew, MD Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Dr. Chad David Courtemanche, MD Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Martha Jo Denton, NP Nurse Practitioner · Winston Salem, NC
• Dr. Shenelle Alyse Edwards, PHD Clinical Neuropsychologist · Winston Salem, NC
• David McLeod Herrington, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Russell Mars Howerton, MD Surgery Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Melissa Anderson Laxton, MD Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Zineb Mashak, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• James Joseph Perumpillichira, MD Body Imaging Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Leslie Anne Prophet, MD Allergy & Immunology (Internal Medicine) Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Ashley Nicholl Sparler, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Fishersville, VA

Other providers in Winston Salem

• Forsyth Memorial Hospital, Inc

  Organization Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · NPI 1396103453

  3333 Silas Creek Pkwy, Winston Salem, NC 27103-3013 · (877) 992-9253