James Porter, MD
Urology · Seattle, WANPI 1215989546
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 486 payments — averaging $5369.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2.4M
- Histosonics, Inc.$130K
- Johnson & Johnson$55K
- Intuitive Surgical$39K
- Covidien LP$11K
- Virtual Incision Corporation$9K
- plus $12K from 34 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $2525.00 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.
- Covidien LP$8K
- Medtronic$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50,06611%
- Speaking & faculty fees$321,00068%
- Travel & lodging$68,45915%
- Food & beverage$14,3273%
- Education$17,0044%
- Entertainment$1090%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 293 | $2,353,222 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 5 | $129,631 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 27 | $55,187 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 69 | $39,206 |
| Covidien LP | 12 | $11,467 |
| Virtual Incision Corporation | 10 | $8,650 |
| BK Medical Holding Company Inc. | 1 | $8,550 |
| Conmed Corporation | 9 | $1,230 |
| EDAP Technomed Inc | 13 | $741 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $197 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $178 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $171 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Dornier Medtech America, Inc | 1 | $139 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 2 | $135 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $127 |
| Coloplast | 3 | $108 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 3 | $86 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $61 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $61 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $48 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $45 |
| Bayer | 2 | $43 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $36 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Photocure Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$38,212
- Mira!$8,422
- AIRSEAL$1,230
- LigaSure$1,108
- RYBREVANT$248
- CARVYKTI$248
- CONMED SPECIMEN RETRIEVAL$244
- Endo Stitch$185
- UroLift$166
- Signia$160
- GENERAL KIDNEY STONE DISEASE$154
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$150
- PYLARIFY$149
- Dornier MedTech$139
- AquaBeam Robotic System$127
- TA$123
- CAPROSYN$103
- Endo GIA$101
- ForceTriad$100
How this compares
$2,609,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 274 urology providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Finasteride | 26 | $147 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Seattle
- Jonathan WrightSeattle$1M
- Thomas WalshSeattle$388K
- Una LeeSeattle$236K
- Marah HehemannSeattle$213K
- Sarah PsutkaSeattle$185K
- Alvaro LucioniSeattle$152K
- John GoreSeattle$114K
- George SchadeSeattle$78K
- James HotalingSeattle$70K
- Vi NguyenSeattle$53K
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.