Raymond Benza is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 560 publications with 24,460 citations (h-index 64); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 4 registered studies matched to this name. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
600 Gresham Dr
Norfolk, VA 235071904
Telephone
757-388-3934Provider last certified this registry record 4 Dec 2025.
Clinical trials
- Telemonitoring to Treat Group 2 Pulmonary Hypertension
Sponsor: Mardi Gomberg -Maitland MD, MSc
- Effect of iNO on Invasively Derived Pulmonary Pressures in Patients With PAH
Sponsor: Allegheny Singer Research Institute (also known as Allegheny Health Network Research Institute)
- Pharmacogenomics in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Sponsor: West Penn Allegheny Health System
Registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov where the overall official or a site investigator name-matches this physician, confirmed against known institution/geography. Latest few shown; the full list is part of the full profile.
Industry payments
20 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Insmed, Inc.Program year20256 payments
- AstraZeneca UK LimitedProgram year20251 payment
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCProgram year20257 payments
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2023)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Cardiovascular
75.9%Loop diuretic27.6%Furosemide100%Part D<11 patientsBeta blocker25.9%Metoprolol Succinate100%Part D<11 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
24.1%SGLT2 inhibitor24.1%Jardiance100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
NIH funding
1 NIH research award on record, funded 2025–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
Awards in the NIH RePORTER records where a principal investigator name matches this physician at an organization in their practice state. Latest award years shown; each row links to the project record on RePORTER.
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