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John Heffernan, MD

Urology · Newport, RINPI 1649243643

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,852in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 386 payments — averaging $22.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$995
  • Pfizer$678
  • C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$565
  • Bayer$520
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$392
  • plus $4K from 49 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,08591%
  • Education$7679%

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

$8,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 55 urology providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$273,502
Medicare patients
1,076
Services billed
4,073

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
XtandiEnzalutamide33$464,071
ErleadaApalutamide13$280,562
GemtesaVibegron217$151,291
MyrbetriqMirabegron179$104,536
Thiola EcTiopronin12$91,577
Methenamine Hippurate341$21,808
ElmironPentosan Polysulfate Sodium17$16,404
Tamsulosin Hcl1,025$14,618
Finasteride1,034$13,481
Testosterone73$9,998
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate102$8,682
RenacidinCitric Ac/Gluconolact/Mag Carb33$8,130
Trospium Chloride94$5,799
Estradiol78$5,036
Testosterone Cypionate192$4,757

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$1,420$568,607212 claims
Johnson & JohnsonErleada$995$280,56213 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$392$151,291217 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 75th percentile of 55 urology providers in Rhode Island.

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