Joshua Sleeper, MD
Urology · Covington, LANPI 1285834234
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,695 of the $11,308 with a category attached, or 85.7%. It is spread thinly across 50 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,858 and has fallen 58.9% since, to $1,587 in 2025.
Across 289 payments — averaging $39.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Neotract Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$857
- Coloplast$836
- Medtronic$729
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$687
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$664
- plus $5K from 44 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,54014%
- Food & beverage$9,69586%
- Education$731%
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.
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.
- UroLift$1,939
- AquaBeam Robotic System$568
- INTERSTIM$380
- Bulkamid$358
- Prolaris$335
- JELMYTO$307
- INTERSTIM ICON$236
- AMS$228
- TITAN$212
- Da Vinci Surgical System$167
- INLAY$137
- Erleada$125
- AKEEGA$125
- Xofigo$125
- ADVANCE$125
- Cook Medical Lasers$125
- ANKTIVA$120
- AMS 700 CXR RTE KIT$116
- iTIND System$100
How this compares
$11,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 199 urology providers in Louisiana.
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 | 29 | $355,587 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 95 | $53,241 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 60 | $35,565 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 101 | $4,973 |
| Testosterone | 19 | $1,399 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 45 | $1,214 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 20 | $1,034 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 152 | $921 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 16 | $555 |
| Dutasteride | 17 | $428 |
| Finasteride | 13 | $378 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 20 | $372 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 54 | $182 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $124 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 57 | $122 |
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 | $664 | $408,828124 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $236 | $35,56560 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 85th percentile of 199 urology providers in Louisiana.
Other urology in Covington
- Sunil PurohitCovington$99K
- Michael PinskyCovington$8K
- Richard VanlangendonckNew Orleans$289K
- Gerard HenryBossier City$256K
- Ralph HendersonShreveport$211K
- Wayne HellstromNew Orleans$183K
- Colin GoudelockeNew Orleans$124K
- Raju ThomasNew Orleans$67K
- Louis KraneNew Orleans$62K
- Kevin HebertShreveport$54K
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.