RxDoctor Payments Data

Larry Lipshultz, MD

Urology · Houston, TXNPI 1811087851

Payments from drug & device makers

$48,088in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 179 payments — averaging $268.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$13K
  • Antares Pharma, Inc.$13K
  • Gilead$9K
  • Clarus Therapeutics Inc.$5K
  • Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$2K
  • Aytu Biopharma, Inc.$2K
  • plus $3K from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$10,50522%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$18,45038%
  • Grants$10,00021%
  • Travel & lodging$8742%
  • Food & beverage$7,80916%
  • Education$4501%

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

$48,088 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$139,208
Medicare patients
332
Services billed
1,932

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron74$68,071
Testosterone87$26,444
XyostedTestosterone Enanthate26$24,962
GemtesaVibegron13$12,726
Testosterone Cypionate252$12,633
Cabergoline125$10,304
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl292$8,031
Tadalafil25$6,522
Tamsulosin Hcl180$3,530
Testosterone Enanthate30$2,829
Pentoxifylline67$2,380
Finasteride166$2,293
Solifenacin Succinate30$2,114
Dutasteride41$1,651
Anastrozole324$1,471

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$151$68,07174 claims
Antares Pharma, Inc.Xyosted$13,186$24,96226 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 878 urology providers in Texas.

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