RxDoctor Payments Data

Gregory Hester, MD

Urology · Houston, TXNPI 1508952870

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,108in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 243 payments — averaging $70.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • HMU Consumables, LLC$9K
  • Neotract Inc.$936
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$888
  • Boston Scientific$870
  • Medtronic$723
  • Pfizer$372
  • plus $4K from 44 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$7446%
  • Food & beverage$7,28054%
  • Education$2382%
  • Other$5,14338%

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

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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.

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

$17,108 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$376,011
Medicare patients
738
Services billed
8,273

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
XtandiEnzalutamide15$242,503
MyrbetriqMirabegron308$202,388
GemtesaVibegron286$165,681
XyostedTestosterone Enanthate51$31,692
Tamsulosin Hcl2,084$26,319
Finasteride1,489$19,421
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride484$15,215
Mirabegron ErMirabegron20$10,936
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated20$8,660
Testosterone Cypionate107$5,991
Estradiol92$5,424
Solifenacin Succinate41$5,086
Testosterone23$4,639
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate82$4,611
Tadalafil38$3,270

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi, Myrbetriq$888$444,891323 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$255$165,681286 claims
Antares Pharma, Inc.Xyosted$87$31,69251 claims
PfizerPremarin$372$8,66020 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 80th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.

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