David Ho, MD
Urology · Houston, TXNPI 1215937586
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 215 payments — averaging $21.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$1K
- Pfizer$594
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$384
- Johnson & Johnson$310
- Abbott$181
- 180 Medical, Inc.$149
- plus $2K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,04689%
- Education$47711%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 47 | $1,068 |
| Pfizer | 32 | $594 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 21 | $384 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $310 |
| Abbott | 4 | $181 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 7 | $149 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 7 | $132 |
| Bayer | 8 | $124 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $124 |
| Convatec Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $103 |
| ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc. | 4 | $101 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $88 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $76 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $41 |
| Halozyme Inc | 2 | $37 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $36 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $24 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Sagent Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $15 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$4,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GemtesaVibegron | 91 | $77,047 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 91 | $68,117 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 750 | $12,082 |
| JatenzoTestosterone Undecanoate | 12 | $12,039 |
| XyostedTestosterone Enanthate | 17 | $10,226 |
| Finasteride | 238 | $3,309 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 60 | $1,944 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 56 | $1,734 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 103 | $1,421 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 153 | $1,307 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 23 | $997 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 78 | $956 |
| Cefdinir | 52 | $819 |
| Bethanechol Chloride | 18 | $756 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 32 | $616 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $384 | $77,04791 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $1,068 | $68,11791 claims |
| Antares Pharma, Inc.Xyosted | $114 | $10,22617 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 50th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.
Other urology in Houston
- Zvi SchiffmanHouston$17.8M
- Jose KaramHouston$5.7M
- Raj SatkunasivamHouston$2.6M
- Alan SkolnickHouston$2.4M
- Brian ChapinHouston$1.1M
- Arun RaiHouston$1M
- Ashish KamatHouston$957K
- Donald GriffithHouston$732K
- Robert CornellHouston$695K
- John DavisHouston$669K
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.