Grant Franklin, MD
Urology · Bridgeport, WVNPI 1407881535
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,026 of the $1,654 with a category attached, or 62.0%. Teleflex LLC accounts for 60.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,010 and has fallen 82.6% since, to $175 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in WV, where the typical reported total is $2,534.
Across 19 payments — averaging $87.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$1K
- Photocure Inc$215
- Lombart Brothers, Inc.$115
- Boston Scientific$83
- Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.$79
- Neotract Inc.$75
- plus $83 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$55333%
- Food & beverage$1,02662%
- Education$755%
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 | 5 | $1,005 |
| Photocure Inc | 2 | $215 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 6 | $115 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $83 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $79 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $58 |
| Palette Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,654 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 67 urology providers in West Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cefdinir | 154 | $1,197 |
| Silodosin | 11 | $528 |
| Phenazopyridine Hcl | 50 | $470 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 28 | $446 |
| Finasteride | 40 | $411 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 37 | $366 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 79 | $329 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 11 | $170 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 61 | $89 |
| Levofloxacin | 30 | $88 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $72 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Bridgeport
- Mohammad HoutBridgeport$5K
- Oluyemi Akin-OlugbadeBridgeport$3K
- William TuongBridgeport$98
- Jaschar Shakuri-RadMorgantown$77K
- Ali HajiranMorgantown$37K
- Lynnetta PayneBeckley$23K
- Stanley ZaslauHuntington$14K
- John BarnardMorgantown$10K
- Mohamad SalkiniMorgantown$8K
- Joshua LohriCharleston$8K
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.