Benjamin Choi, MD
Urology · New York, NYNPI 1528101607
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 27 payments — averaging $324.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Olympus America Inc.$8K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$310
- Johnson & Johnson$261
- Abbott$125
- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$121
- Koelis Inc.$121
- plus $207 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$90110%
- Education$2433%
- Gifts$7,62187%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $7,621 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $310 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $261 |
| Abbott | 1 | $125 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Koelis Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $116 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $24 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- STRATAFIX$136
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$136
- Echelon Flex$136
- ETERNA$125
- XARELTO$125
- PYLARIFY$121
- TRINITY$121
How this compares
$8,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.
Medicare billing
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 | 185 | $95,186 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 55 | $26,854 |
| Silodosin | 238 | $18,973 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 480 | $10,183 |
| Finasteride | 639 | $10,014 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 31 | $5,683 |
| RapafloSilodosin | 14 | $5,642 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 102 | $3,042 |
| Tadalafil | 79 | $2,734 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 38 | $2,510 |
| Testosterone | 11 | $2,449 |
| Dutasteride | 53 | $1,820 |
| Estradiol | 11 | $863 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 24 | $831 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 20 | $642 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $310 | $95,186185 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.
Other urology in New York
- Guarionex DecastroNew York$5.7M
- James McKiernanNew York$4.1M
- William HuangNew York$3.9M
- Ashutosh TewariNew York$2.5M
- Bilal ChughtaiNew York$1.5M
- Nils Peter WiklundNew York$1M
- Herbert LeporNew York$823K
- Christopher AndersonNew York$785K
- Katie MurrayNew York$776K
- John SfakianosNew York$726K
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.