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title: Dr. Benjamin Starnes — drug & device company payments (CMS Open Payments 2024)
license: CC0-1.0
source: CMS Open Payments PY2024 (Sunshine Act)
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# Dr. Benjamin Starnes — drug & device company payments (CMS Open Payments 2024)

CMS Open Payments PY2024 records for Dr. Benjamin Starnes (Vascular Surgery, SEATLE, WA, NPI 1114997707): $616,281 total across 38 payments from drug and device companies. Split by relevance: $616,281 promotional (marketing), $0 royalty/ownership, $0 research/other. Largest payers: Bolton Medical Inc ($619,347), W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ($787), Medtronic, Inc. ($329). Source: Sunshine Act. CC0.

## Claims

### Total 2024 industry payments to Dr. Benjamin Starnes

**RECORDED.** In 2024, drug and device companies reported $616,281 in payments to Dr. Benjamin Starnes (Vascular Surgery, SEATLE, WA) across 38 payments.

Source: CMS Open Payments PY2024 (Sunshine Act) — https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Falsifier: A RECORD of measured/reported events (occurred=true) from CMS Open Payments PY2024 (Sunshine Act); superseded when CMS Open Payments PY2024 (Sunshine Act) publishes its next release.

### Payment composition: promotional vs royalty vs other

**INTERPRETATION.** Of that, $616,281 is promotional (meals, speaking, travel, consulting — a company marketing its products), $0 is royalty/ownership (income for inventing or owning something, not a prescribing conflict), and $0 is research/grants/other.

Source: Atlas Commons grouping of CMS nature-of-payment codes by patient relevance — https://care-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/
Falsifier: occurred=FALSE (a framing, not an event) and adjudged=FALSE (an in-house reading, not an authority's verdict) — the LOWEST-warrant claim here. A flat representation would render this identically to the official facts; the four-status does not.

### Largest paying companies (in-house ranking over CMS records)

**DERIVED.** Largest paying companies: Bolton Medical Inc ($619,347), W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ($787), Medtronic, Inc. ($329), Cook Medical LLC ($137). The company names and per-payment amounts are CMS-recorded; the "largest" ranking and selection are an in-house aggregation, so adjudged=FALSE — CMS did not adjudge this ranking.

Source: Atlas Commons ranking over CMS Open Payments PY2024 by-company records — https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Falsifier: occurred=FALSE (a calculation, not an event) and adjudged=FALSE (a transparent in-house formula, not an authority's verdict — no external adjudicator). Reproduce it from its named inputs; falsified if the formula or inputs are wrong. Lower warrant than the adjudged figures above.

### What an Open Payments figure is — and is NOT

**INTERPRETATION.** A disclosed Open Payments amount is a publicly-reported financial relationship; it is not proof of wrongdoing and not evidence it changed patient care. It is not a rating of this physician.

Source: Sunshine Act transparency purpose; Atlas Commons L5 boundary — https://care-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/
Falsifier: occurred=FALSE (a framing, not an event) and adjudged=FALSE (an in-house reading, not an authority's verdict) — the LOWEST-warrant claim here. A flat representation would render this identically to the official facts; the four-status does not.

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Every claim above carries a four-status warrant (RECORDED / MODELED / DERIVED / INTERPRETATION) and a named source you can re-fetch — this is a research object, not a flat fact. Structured: `https://care-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/payments/1114997707.jsonld`

## Data

### 2024 payment summary — Dr. Benjamin Starnes

CMS Open Payments PY2024. Nature split (INTERPRETATION) is Atlas Commons grouping, not a CMS category.

| Category | Amount | Warrant |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Total payments | $616,281 | RECORDED |
| Promotional | $616,281 | INTERPRETATION |
| Royalty / ownership | $0 | INTERPRETATION |
| Research / other | $0 | INTERPRETATION |

### Largest paying companies

In-house ranking over CMS records (DERIVED). Company names and amounts are CMS-RECORDED.

| Company | Amount paid (2024) | Warrant |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bolton Medical Inc | $619,347 | DERIVED |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | $787 | DERIVED |
| Medtronic, Inc. | $329 | DERIVED |
| Cook Medical LLC | $137 | DERIVED |

### Payments by CMS nature-of-payment code

CMS-reported nature codes (RECORDED).

| Nature | Code | Amount | Warrant |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Consulting fees | 1 | $610,118 | RECORDED |
| Travel & lodging | 7 | $3,883 | RECORDED |
| Food & beverage | 6 | $2,280 | RECORDED |