David Goldfarb, MD
Urology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1831135094
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 38 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $403 and has fallen 60.5% since, to $159 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $2,547.
Across 38 payments — averaging $39.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$184
- Rochester Medical Corporation$168
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$142
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$128
- Terumo Medical Corporation$127
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$108
- plus $642 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,499100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 2 | $184 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 7 | $168 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $128 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $127 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $105 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $86 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $80 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $74 |
| Stryker | 1 | $59 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $56 |
| Novartis | 2 | $42 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $39 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $38 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp. | 1 | $14 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Signia$131
- GlideWire$127
- Azur CX Detachable$127
- XIAFLEX$108
- Rivfloza$105
How this compares
$1,499 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 485 urology providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 26 | $19,336 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 404 | $5,962 |
| Trospium Chloride | 58 | $4,756 |
| Testosterone | 27 | $4,546 |
| Finasteride | 219 | $2,698 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 12 | $1,655 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 38 | $1,524 |
| Fesoterodine Fumarate ErFesoterodine Fumarate | 18 | $931 |
| Dutasteride | 27 | $853 |
| Estradiol | 11 | $848 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 24 | $803 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 11 | $501 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 19 | $363 |
| Doxazosin Mesylate | 13 | $265 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 18 | $224 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Cleveland
- Howard GoldmanCleveland$721K
- Sriharan SivalingamCleveland$276K
- Sandip VasavadaCleveland$263K
- Jihad KaoukCleveland$234K
- Ruben OlivaresCleveland$184K
- Raymond RackleyCleveland$152K
- Petar BajicCleveland$149K
- Jorge Gutierrez AcevesCleveland$90K
- Kenneth AngermeierCleveland$69K
- Roger KhouriCleveland$57K
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.