John Watson, MD
Urology · Columbus, NJNPI 1962662312
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 222 payments — averaging $16.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$438
- Pfizer$384
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$350
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$278
- Antares Pharma, Inc.$211
- Bayer$206
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,53197%
- Education$1033%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 30 | $438 |
| Pfizer | 31 | $384 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 20 | $350 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 15 | $278 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $211 |
| Bayer | 10 | $206 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $198 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 11 | $182 |
| Stryker | 1 | $138 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $137 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $101 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 5 | $100 |
| Amgen | 7 | $99 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 6 | $87 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $83 |
| Neotract Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Merck | 4 | $58 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 4 | $54 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $52 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 3 | $42 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 2 | $26 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Photocure Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$3,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 401 urology providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 77 | $1,080,363 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 605 | $417,701 |
| ErleadaApalutamide | 12 | $179,239 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 125 | $102,330 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 33 | $22,423 |
| Mirabegron ErMirabegron | 30 | $21,271 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 1,184 | $14,024 |
| Silodosin | 93 | $8,842 |
| Dutasteride-TamsulosinDutasteride/Tamsulosin Hcl | 22 | $7,519 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 61 | $7,207 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 48 | $5,868 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 95 | $5,576 |
| Testosterone | 19 | $5,351 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 261 | $4,622 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 125 | $4,504 |
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 IncXtandi, Myrbetriq | $350 | $1,498,065682 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonErleada | $198 | $179,23912 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $18 | $102,330125 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 60th percentile of 401 urology providers in New Jersey.
Other urology in Columbus
- Gordon BrownCherry Hill$2.8M
- Nitin YerramHackensack$1.6M
- Michael StifelmanHackensack$1.5M
- Thomas MuellerLinwood$1.2M
- David SussmanLinwood$833K
- Michael IngberDenville$607K
- Ravi MunverHackensack$529K
- Grannum SantBridgewater$487K
- Mutahar AhmedMaywood$464K
- Neil ShermanCranford$404K
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.