Has Arun Rai, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $920,349 in general payments to Arun Rai, MD across 67 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 Arun Rai, 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 Arun Rai, 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.

Arun Rai, MD

Urology · Houston, TXNPI 1508278995

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $905,571 of the $920,349 with a category attached, or 98.4%. Histosonics, Inc. accounts for 96.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $889,987, more than ten times the $50 reported in 2019. Among urology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$920,349in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $13,737 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Histosonics, Inc.$888K
Activ Surgical, Inc.$21K
Intuitive Surgical$6K
Novo Nordisk$2K
Stryker$1K
Boston Scientific$864
plus $1K from 7 others

$86,492in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $86,492 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.

Histosonics, Inc.$86K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$905,57198%
Travel & lodging$7,3711%
Food & beverage$3,4070%
Education$4,0000%

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
Histosonics, Inc.	5	$887,622
Activ Surgical, Inc.	13	$21,449
Intuitive Surgical	13	$5,759
Novo Nordisk	2	$1,800
Stryker	7	$1,404
Boston Scientific	7	$864
Calyxo, Inc.	4	$587
Procept Biorobotics Corporation	2	$248
Coloplast	9	$223
Mediview XR, Inc.	1	$116
Novo Nordisk Health Care AG	1	$114
Medtronic	2	$90
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$74

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.

How this compares

$920,349 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$181,053

Medicare patients

425

Services billed

1,220

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
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate	165	$18,429
MyrbetriqMirabegron	18	$15,812
Solifenacin Succinate	88	$6,514
Tamsulosin Hcl	294	$4,765
Finasteride	141	$1,789
Estradiol	18	$960
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	14	$957
Oxybutynin Chloride	32	$647
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride	34	$603
Chlorthalidone	19	$291
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	32	$190
Allopurinol	15	$143
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	22	$124
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	16	$106
Hydrochlorothiazide	12	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Steven CanfieldHouston$256K
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Kathleen KobashiHouston$159K
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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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