Howard Woo, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,476 of the $12,437 with a category attached, or 68.2%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Axonics, Inc. at 42.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,280 and has fallen 57.8% since, to $1,386 in 2025.
Across 179 payments — averaging $69.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axonics, Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$3K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$261
- Urogen Pharma, Inc.$233
- Neotract Inc.$220
- plus $2K from 15 others
Across 91 payments — averaging $2502.78 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$176K
- Axonics, Inc.$52K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3062%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2582%
- Travel & lodging$3,29727%
- Food & beverage$8,47668%
- Education$1001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axonics, Inc. | 90 | $5,323 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 33 | $3,290 |
| Boston Scientific | 19 | $1,307 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $261 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $233 |
| Neotract Inc. | 4 | $220 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 3 | $206 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 2 | $189 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $176 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $172 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $158 |
| Coloplast | 3 | $151 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Profound Medical Corp. | 1 | $125 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 2 | $96 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $51 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $47 |
| Photocure Inc | 1 | $40 |
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.
- Bulkamid$2,438
- INTERSTIM$2,257
- Axonics$2,111
- Axonics r-SNM System$1,033
- Kerecis SurgiClose$687
- AMS 700$385
- LithoVue$290
- INTERSTIM ICON$239
- GEMTESA$234
- Kerecis GraftGuide$172
- N/A$150
- CVAC Aspiration System$145
- iTIND System$140
- SUPRIS$128
- Tulsa-Pro$125
- RESONANCE$121
- ACCUMAX$115
- GENERAL ONCOLOGY$110
- Inspire$102
How this compares
$12,437 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 199 urology providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 301 | $205,402 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 83 | $66,386 |
| ElmironPentosan Polysulfate Sodium | 38 | $38,953 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 155 | $13,155 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 1,005 | $8,550 |
| Finasteride | 659 | $6,621 |
| Bethanechol Chloride | 79 | $6,591 |
| Dutasteride | 128 | $4,067 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 258 | $2,882 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 24 | $2,148 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 103 | $2,079 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 86 | $1,789 |
| Estradiol | 30 | $1,710 |
| Trospium Chloride | 28 | $1,683 |
| Tadalafil | 30 | $1,502 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $176 | $205,402301 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $261 | $66,38683 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 85th percentile of 199 urology providers in Louisiana.
Other urology in Houma
- Richard VanlangendonckNew Orleans$289K
- Gerard HenryBossier City$256K
- Ralph HendersonShreveport$211K
- Wayne HellstromNew Orleans$183K
- Colin GoudelockeNew Orleans$124K
- Sunil PurohitCovington$99K
- Raju ThomasNew Orleans$67K
- Louis KraneNew Orleans$62K
- Kevin HebertShreveport$54K
- Jorge CasoNew Orleans$54K
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.