Carter Mikesell, MD
Urology · la Mesa, CANPI 1609371327
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 46 payments — averaging $110.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Olympus America Inc.$788
- Antares Pharma, Inc.$234
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$211
- Dornier Medtech America, Inc$157
- plus $848 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,58671%
- Education$1,50029%
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 | 2 | $1,600 |
| Boston Scientific | 19 | $1,249 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 7 | $788 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $234 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $211 |
| Dornier Medtech America, Inc | 1 | $157 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $65 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $46 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $44 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Bayer | 1 | $27 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- iTIND System$668
- AMS 700$392
- Dornier MedTech$157
- ORGOVYX$132
- XTANDI$125
- TLANDO$125
- XIAFLEX$125
- AMS 700 CXR RTE KIT$123
- PROVENGE$115
- XYOSTED$109
- NEOX$109
- CLARIX$109
- Da Vinci Surgical System$100
How this compares
$5,086 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,324 urology providers in California.
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 | 57 | $998 |
| Finasteride | 20 | $402 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 12 | $222 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 13 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in la Mesa
- Mohamed Bidairla Mesa$1.7M
- Paul Datola Mesa$1M
- Franklin Gaylisla Mesa$424K
- Edward UchioOrange$21.1M
- Stephen FreedlandWest Hollywood$16.7M
- Alec KooTorrance$7.4M
- Karim ChamieLos Angeles$4.3M
- Ralph ClaymanOrange$3.9M
- Siamak DaneshmandLos Angeles$3.5M
- Arnold ChinLos Angeles$3.5M
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.