RxDoctor Payments Data

Jonathan Fialkov, MD

Urology · West Des Moines, IANPI 1518951532

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.8%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Procept Biorobotics Corporation at 33.5% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in IA, where the typical reported total is $1,504.

$1,504in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $37.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Procept Biorobotics Corporation$503
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$412
  • Pfizer$184
  • Coloplast$94
  • Intuitive Surgical$71
  • Tolmar, Inc.$60
  • plus $179 from 8 others
$8,500in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $4250.00 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.

  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$9K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$27218%
  • Food & beverage$89960%
  • Education$33322%

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

$1,504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 114 urology providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,362
Medicare patients
59
Services billed
189

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron69$27,777
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated18$8,711
Tamsulosin Hcl536$8,282
GemtesaVibegron25$5,096
Finasteride351$4,566
Testosterone16$2,699
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride98$2,574
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate20$2,143
Methenamine Hippurate14$2,086
Estradiol15$1,702
Megestrol Acetate39$1,402
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl77$1,063
Desmopressin Acetate13$832
Bicalutamide20$455
Oxybutynin Chloride37$395

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 IncMyrbetriq$412$27,77769 claims
PfizerPremarin$184$8,71118 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 50th percentile of 114 urology providers in Iowa.

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