Douglas Sutherland, MD
Urology · Tacoma, WANPI 1235210493
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (46.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $10,869 and has fallen 83.1% since, to $1,840 in 2025. Among urology clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 67 payments — averaging $225.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Coloplast$376
- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$241
- EDAP Technomed Inc$201
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$186
- Medtronic$159
- plus $497 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,57530%
- Food & beverage$3,53823%
- Education$7,00446%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 36 | $13,464 |
| Coloplast | 5 | $376 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $241 |
| EDAP Technomed Inc | 1 | $201 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $186 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $159 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $61 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $55 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $35 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $26 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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$9,767
- DA VINCI SP$3,000
- PYLARIFY$214
- AquaBeam Robotic System$186
- LigaSure$159
- TITAN$145
How this compares
$15,126 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 274 urology providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methenamine Hippurate | 11 | $777 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 48 | $488 |
| Finasteride | 28 | $368 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 21 | $309 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 14 | $87 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 13 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Tacoma
- Carolyn SalterTacoma$8K
- Francis KimTacoma$7K
- Kevin TsaiTacoma$6K
- James PorterSeattle$471K
- Marah HehemannSeattle$213K
- Raymond LanceSpokane$211K
- Thomas WalshSeattle$186K
- Alvaro LucioniSeattle$148K
- Una LeeSeattle$116K
- George SchadeSeattle$78K
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.