Has Eric Katz, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,060 in general payments to Eric Katz, MD across 32 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 Eric Katz, 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 Eric Katz, 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.

Eric Katz, MD

Urology · Hartford, CTNPI 1598147282

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,350 of the $14,060 with a category attached, or 73.6%. Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. accounts for 73.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $13,149 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $200 in 2025.

$14,060in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $439.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$10K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Boston Scientific$508
BD$230
Calyxo, Inc.$165
Photocure Inc$132
plus $190 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$10,35074%
Travel & lodging$2,42517%
Food & beverage$1,2859%

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
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.	3	$10,337
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	14	$2,498
Boston Scientific	5	$508
BD	1	$230
Calyxo, Inc.	2	$165
Photocure Inc	1	$132
Intuitive Surgical	1	$95
Electromed, Inc.	2	$32
Coloplast	2	$32
Dentsply IH AB	1	$31

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

$14,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 156 urology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$123,967

Medicare patients

315

Services billed

1,308

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	126	$80,959
GemtesaVibegron	26	$21,680
Tamsulosin Hcl	402	$4,901
Finasteride	224	$2,225
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride	87	$2,139
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	91	$1,518
Cefpodoxime Proxetil	16	$684
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	86	$355
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	20	$232
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	27	$178
Cephalexin	24	$164
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	26	$156
Levofloxacin	24	$28

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Abram DamatoHartford$6K
Peter BoscoHartford$3K
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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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