RxDoctor Payments Data

Charles Best, MD

Urology · Aberdeen, WANPI 1962423418

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,159in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $33.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$430
  • Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.$211
  • AbbVie$98
  • Rochester Medical Corporation$87
  • C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$78
  • Valencia Technologies Corporation$67
  • plus $188 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$77467%
  • Education$38533%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,159 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 274 urology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$215,752
Medicare patients
544
Services billed
2,688

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
XtandiEnzalutamide44$774,704
GemtesaVibegron33$33,892
MyrbetriqMirabegron34$33,547
Tamsulosin Hcl489$9,652
Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate76$4,485
Finasteride174$2,238
Tolterodine Tartrate26$1,580
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst118$886
Oxybutynin Chloride44$697
Solifenacin Succinate24$647
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl30$596
NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal12$516
Dutasteride17$464
Ibuprofen69$394
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim103$249

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 IncXtandi, Myrbetriq$430$808,25278 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$21$33,89233 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 40th percentile of 274 urology providers in Washington.

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