RxDoctor Payments Data

Howard Beck, MD

Urology · Lubbock, TXNPI 1437152030

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,894in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 243 payments — averaging $28.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$830
  • Boston Scientific$696
  • Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$561
  • Johnson & Johnson$525
  • Pfizer$368
  • AbbVie$367
  • plus $4K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,56395%
  • Education$3315%

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

$6,894 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$700,259
Medicare patients
1,405
Services billed
14,929

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron306$245,099
GemtesaVibegron118$86,118
Mirabegron ErMirabegron63$40,182
Abiraterone Acetate23$39,896
Tamsulosin Hcl1,651$31,524
Trimethoprim392$30,342
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate335$17,959
Finasteride1,170$16,304
Dutasteride471$15,874
Doxycycline Hyclate406$11,260
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl358$8,825
Methenamine Hippurate118$8,801
Testosterone Cypionate131$8,061
Doxycycline Monohydrate236$7,591
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride308$6,280

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 IncMyrbetriq$830$245,099306 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$321$86,118118 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 65th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.

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