RxDoctor Payments Data

Casey Kowalik, MD

Urology · Kansas City, KSNPI 1083925127

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (31.6%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 65.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,965, more than ten times the $29 reported in 2019.

$7,699in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $150.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$5K
  • Axonics, Inc.$2K
  • Medtronic$524
  • Cook Medical LLC$197
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$63
  • Coloplast$53
  • plus $117 from 4 others
$89,497in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $2418.84 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.

  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$61K
  • Urovant Sciences Inc$28K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,43032%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,34530%
  • Travel & lodging$1,12815%
  • Food & beverage$1,79523%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Boston Scientific10$5,012
Axonics, Inc.16$1,733
Medtronic(2 entities)7$524
Cook Medical LLC4$197
Astellas Pharma US Inc3$63
Coloplast4$53
Johnson & Johnson3$43
AbbVie(2 entities)2$28
Hollister Incorporated1$27
Caldera Medical, Inc1$19

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

$7,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 111 urology providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$120,016
Medicare patients
433
Services billed
1,134

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
MyrbetriqMirabegron268$224,837
GemtesaVibegron29$18,049
Methenamine Hippurate240$15,970
Estradiol210$15,133
EstringEstradiol27$14,044
Trospium Chloride ErTrospium Chloride61$10,750
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated15$7,057
Mirabegron ErMirabegron14$6,004
Trospium Chloride46$3,783
Solifenacin Succinate58$2,219
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride77$1,996
Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate18$1,545
Tamsulosin Hcl77$1,289
Fesoterodine Fumarate ErFesoterodine Fumarate12$1,200
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst57$577

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$63$224,837268 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 80th percentile of 111 urology providers in Kansas.

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