Brett Baker, MD
Urology · Austin, TXNPI 1790882215
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 164 payments — averaging $25.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$986
- AbbVie$781
- Pfizer$416
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$336
- Teleflex LLC$206
- Innovation Technologies Inc$127
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$98624%
- Food & beverage$3,09475%
- Education$632%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $986 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 41 | $781 |
| Pfizer | 32 | $416 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 18 | $336 |
| Teleflex LLC | 5 | $206 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $103 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $90 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $73 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $69 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 4 | $64 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $54 |
| Bayer | 3 | $41 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Neotract Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $24 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Avadel Specialty Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $18 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $14 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 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 Surgical System$967
- UroLift$138
- XTANDI$105
How this compares
$4,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OrgovyxRelugolix | 186 | $468,504 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 372 | $276,414 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 192 | $153,386 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 34 | $41,672 |
| Mirabegron ErMirabegron | 69 | $39,875 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 1,150 | $19,272 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 175 | $4,646 |
| VesicareSolifenacin Succinate | 12 | $4,352 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 110 | $4,113 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 58 | $3,580 |
| Finasteride | 255 | $3,412 |
| Trospium Chloride ErTrospium Chloride | 23 | $3,326 |
| Fesoterodine Fumarate ErFesoterodine Fumarate | 12 | $2,940 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 23 | $2,362 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 33 | $2,282 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Orgovyx, Gemtesa | $58 | $621,890378 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq, Vesicare | $336 | $280,766384 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 50th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.
Other urology in Austin
- Michael TrotterAustin$892K
- Varun SundaramAustin$400K
- Elizabeth MobleyAustin$283K
- Parviz KavoussiAustin$251K
- Peter RuffAustin$168K
- Zvi SchiffmanHouston$17.8M
- Jose de la CerdaSan Antonio$9M
- Daniel SaltzsteinSan Antonio$5.8M
- Jose KaramHouston$5.7M
- Daniel ZainfeldSan Antonio$4.7M
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.