Louis M. Benevento, MD
Internal Medicine Physician · Las Cruces, NM
Louis M. Benevento, MD is an internal medicine physician with a practice address in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and NPI 1063445666, issued on Jul 8, 2006. Check the license (New Mexico 723, as entered in NPPES) on the New Mexico Medical Board; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Louis M. Benevento
- Credential
- MD
- Primary taxonomy
- Internal Medicine Physician 207R00000X
- License number
- 723 NM
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 3961 E Lohman Ave Ste 33, Las Cruces, NM 88011
- Phone
- (575) 522-0423
- Enumerated
- Jul 8, 2006
- Record last updated
- Mar 19, 2024
- Fax
- (575) 556-0201
- Medicaid ID
- 02428 NM
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20040115001135); accepts Medicare assignment
- Medical or professional school
- New York Medical College, 1970
- Telehealth
- Offers telehealth (CMS)
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Also registered at 3961 E Lohman Ave Ste 33
A shared address usually means a shared clinic or building; it does not show who employs whom.
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Verify Louis M. Benevento in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersNew Mexico Medical Board
Search for license 723Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
37% more Medicare Part D claims than the average internal medicine physician in 2024
4,360 Medicare Part D claims for 391 beneficiaries, against an average of 3,176 among the 108,855 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 10% of claims. 84 claims were for opioids.
Most prescribed
- Losartan Potassium233 claims
- Amlodipine Besylate195 claims
- Atorvastatin Calcium179 claims
- Lisinopril157 claims
- Levothyroxine Sodium148 claims
- Rosuvastatin Calcium128 claims
Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.
No measured MIPS final score for 2023
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 without scoring Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability or Improvement Activities. It is an administrative threshold, so PlainDoctor does not compare it with measured clinicians.
Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023, group reporting; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $340.47
17 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Abbvie Inc. The 50,334 providers of this specialty with any payment received $1,303.06 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.
Louis M. Benevento among 770 internal medicine physician records in New Mexico
Louis M. Benevento, MD is one of 770 internal medicine physician records with a practice address in New Mexico. 74% of them appear in a Medicare file (Part D prescribing, MIPS, Open Payments or Medicare group billing); this one does. Its NPI, issued in 2006, is newer than 6% of them.
- NPI issued2006 · 6% of these records are older, 57% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 74% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 58% of these records are
- Graduated1970 · median 2009 among the 447 with a school on file
- Record last updated2024 · 54% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 207R00000X and a New Mexico practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
52 internal medicine physician records list a practice address in Las Cruces
They are 52 of the 5,468 NPPES records with a practice address in Las Cruces, and 770 internal medicine physician records in New Mexico.
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Common questions
What is Louis M. Benevento, MD's NPI number?
Louis M. Benevento, MD's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1063445666, issued on Jul 8, 2006. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Louis M. Benevento, MD located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 3961 E Lohman Ave Ste 33, Las Cruces, NM, 88011. Phone: (575) 522-0423. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Louis M. Benevento, MD's license?
NPPES lists New Mexico license number 723, as entered by the provider. Search the New Mexico Medical Board at https://www.nmmb.state.nm.us/. The NPPES record confirms identity only; the state search shows license status, expiration and public orders.
How much does Louis M. Benevento, MD prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Louis M. Benevento, MD had 4,360 Medicare Part D claims for 391 beneficiaries; the average among internal medicine physician prescribers was 3,176. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is Louis M. Benevento, MD's MIPS final score?
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 for 2023 without scoring any category, so it is not a measured result.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy. Medicare files from data.cms.gov. An NPI identifies who bills; it is not a license.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.