Has Al Barqawi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,041 in general payments to Al Barqawi, MD across 33 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Al Barqawi, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Al Barqawi, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Al Barqawi, MD

Urology · Aurora, CONPI 1457541252

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,226 of the $5,041 with a category attached, or 64.0%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Profound Medical Corp. at 39.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,287, 4.9 times the $470 reported in 2019.

$5,041in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $152.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Profound Medical Corp.$2K
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$1K
Procept Biorobotics Corporation$530
Covidien LP$335
Angiodynamics, Inc.$233
Boston Scientific$212
plus $284 from 3 others

$111,037in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $9253.04 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Angiodynamics, Inc.$111K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3357%
Travel & lodging$1,48029%
Food & beverage$3,22664%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Profound Medical Corp.	3	$2,005
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	15	$1,441
Procept Biorobotics Corporation	3	$530
Covidien LP	1	$335
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$233
Boston Scientific	6	$212
Agiliti Health, Inc.	1	$183
Agiliti Surgical, Inc.	1	$83
Telix Pharmaceuticals	1	$18

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

Tulsa-Pro$1,999
Varian CRYOCARE TOUCH System$982
AquaBeam Robotic System$487
LigaSure$335
Nanoknife$233
EMBOZENE$143
US - Ultrasound Systems$116
REZUM$109

How this compares

$5,041 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 225 urology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$170,696

Medicare patients

491

Services billed

1,593

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
MyrbetriqMirabegron	39	$36,851
Finasteride	673	$9,791
GemtesaVibegron	11	$8,132
Tamsulosin Hcl	582	$8,055
Solifenacin Succinate	73	$1,922
Dutasteride	40	$1,065
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	57	$654
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	20	$562
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	262	$522
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	66	$134
Levofloxacin	11	$22

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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