Has David Hesse, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,001 in general payments to David Hesse, MD across 11 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Hesse, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Hesse, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Hesse, MD

Urology · New Haven, CTNPI 1952343741

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,142 of the $4,001 with a category attached, or 78.5%. Covidien LP accounts for 78.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,142 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $128 in 2025.

$4,001in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $363.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Covidien LP$3K
Palette Life Sciences, Inc.$244
Intuitive Surgical$193
Urogen Pharma, Inc.$156
Boston Scientific$138
Johnson & Johnson$128

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,14279%
Travel & lodging$1935%
Food & beverage$66117%
Education$50%

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
Covidien LP	2	$3,142
Palette Life Sciences, Inc.	2	$244
Intuitive Surgical	2	$193
Urogen Pharma, Inc.	2	$156
Boston Scientific	2	$138
Johnson & Johnson	1	$128

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

$4,001 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 156 urology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$111,008

Medicare patients

445

Services billed

1,182

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	43	$49,732
GemtesaVibegron	13	$6,347
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	268	$6,008
Methenamine Hippurate	37	$5,782
Tamsulosin Hcl	407	$5,694
Tadalafil	28	$4,481
Finasteride	307	$4,170
Trospium Chloride	32	$2,364
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride	73	$2,021
Dutasteride	55	$1,380
Silodosin	24	$1,074
Testosterone	12	$949
Imipramine Hcl	39	$729
Bicalutamide	26	$684
Allopurinol	22	$333

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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