Eric Hick, DO
Urology · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1346236353
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $58.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$1K
- Boston Scientific$921
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$779
- Medtronic$713
- Verathon Inc.$400
- Neotract Inc.$142
- plus $995 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4007%
- Travel & lodging$1,47927%
- Food & beverage$2,85753%
- Education$68013%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teleflex LLC | 8 | $1,466 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $921 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 16 | $779 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $713 |
| Verathon Inc. | 1 | $400 |
| Neotract Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 7 | $133 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $122 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 4 | $89 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 2 | $66 |
| Merck | 2 | $59 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 4 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $48 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $44 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $35 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Agiliti Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $23 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| EDAP Technomed Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| SRS Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- UroLift$1,338
- NPD Clinical Study$400
- INTERSTIM$352
- GENERAL ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION$272
- AMS 700$140
How this compares
$5,416 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 272 urology providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 146 | $1,693 |
| Finasteride | 88 | $751 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 39 | $748 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 13 | $498 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $94 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Fort Wayne
- Colin LinkeFort Wayne$65K
- Mark DabagiaFort Wayne$27K
- Jorge ArzolaFort Wayne$19K
- George MartinFort Wayne$16K
- Ryan MaloneJeffersonville$7.1M
- James BailenJeffersonville$5.9M
- Eugene ConeGreenwood$2.1M
- Chad ReichardCarmel$1.3M
- Alexander TatemCarmel$441K
- Marcelino RiveraIndianapolis$382K
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.