James Cord
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (38.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bayer at 39.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,068 and has fallen 67.2% since, to $678 in 2021.
Across 83 payments — averaging $56.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$2K
- Neotract Inc.$2K
- Pfizer$234
- Clarus Therapeutics Inc.$210
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$191
- AbbVie$168
- plus $429 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,80039%
- Travel & lodging$1,16325%
- Food & beverage$1,61935%
- Education$912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 2 | $1,821 |
| Neotract Inc. | 12 | $1,619 |
| Pfizer | 24 | $234 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 6 | $210 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $191 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $168 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $69 |
| Merck | 3 | $47 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $37 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $36 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $34 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $32 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $28 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $24 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals 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
$4,673 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 269 urology providers in Arizona.
Other urology in Mesa
- Rahul MehanMesa$277K
- Shoaib SafiullahMesa$14K
- Greggory PeiferMesa$14K
- Harpreet WadhwaMesa$14K
- Daniel GilbertMesa$12K
- John WilliamsMesa$11K
- Kashif AlviMesa$11K
- Raul WebsterMesa$10K
- Mitchell HumphreysPhoenix$358K
- Shawn BlickGoodyear$336K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.