Christopher Dechet, MD
Urology · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1538271861
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (54.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Intuitive Surgical. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,815 and has fallen 85.8% since, to $401 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in UT, where the typical reported total is $3,296.
Across 17 payments — averaging $224.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
Across 17 payments — averaging $8107.73 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.
- Merck$138K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,28634%
- Food & beverage$3048%
- Education$2,09355%
- Gifts$1263%
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 | 17 | $3,809 |
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$2,101
- DA VINCI SP$1,500
How this compares
$3,809 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 96 urology providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Finasteride | 26 | $205 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 13 | $91 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $33 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 11 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Salt Lake City
- William BrantSalt Lake City$290K
- Benjamin McCormickSalt Lake City$67K
- Richard MaternSalt Lake City$58K
- Akhil SajiSalt Lake City$49K
- Stephen SummersSalt Lake City$15K
- Jeremy MyersSalt Lake City$15K
- Gary JohnsonSalt Lake City$15K
- Sara LenherrSalt Lake City$12K
- Mitchell BassettSalt Lake City$10K
- Joseph ArmstrongSalt Lake City$9K
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.