Benjamin Waldorf, MD
Urology · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1285945253
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (48.0%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 54.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,635 and has fallen 55.9% since, to $2,929 in 2025.
Across 96 payments — averaging $164.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- EDAP Technomed Inc$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Teleflex LLC$817
- Urogen Pharma, Inc.$246
- Neotract Inc.$230
- plus $2K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5009%
- Travel & lodging$9506%
- Food & beverage$5,77937%
- Education$7,59448%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $8,683 |
| EDAP Technomed Inc | 5 | $1,681 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $1,681 |
| Teleflex LLC | 10 | $817 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $246 |
| Neotract Inc. | 3 | $230 |
| Photocure Inc | 3 | $188 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $183 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $150 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $131 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $126 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| SRS Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $113 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $111 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $110 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Stryker | 1 | $75 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $65 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Bayer | 2 | $40 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Merck | 2 | $39 |
| Profound Medical Corp. | 1 | $30 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Axogen | 1 | $21 |
| Civco Medical Instruments | 1 | $20 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DA VINCI SP$4,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,053
- FOCAL ONE$1,500
- UroLift$615
- INTEGRA$451
- LithoVue$401
- AquaBeam Robotic System$183
- Tria Firm$175
- Cysview$156
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$150
- PRIMATRIX$150
- rezum Generator$137
- Signia$131
- XIAFLEX$123
- REZUM$121
- GENERAL FEMALE SUI$121
- UroCuff$118
- Lumenis Pulse 120H$116
- FLEX-XC CMOS URETEROSCOPE 8.5 FR X 675MM$113
- TITAN$110
How this compares
$15,824 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 276 urology providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 63 | $628 |
| Finasteride | 48 | $572 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 95 | $287 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $77 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Chattanooga
- Anand ShridharaniChattanooga$133K
- Amar SinghChattanooga$57K
- Argil WheelockChattanooga$47K
- Jeffrey MullinsChattanooga$18K
- L KnollNashville$2.1M
- David GubinMemphis$1M
- Gautam JayramNashville$1M
- David MorrisHendersonville$871K
- Roger DmochowskiNashville$763K
- Paul EberGermantown$476K
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.