Lawrence Tsai, MD
Urology · Austin, TXNPI 1366853152
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 228 payments — averaging $31.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axonics, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- AbbVie$746
- Neotract Inc.$427
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$368
- Teleflex LLC$259
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$501%
- Travel & lodging$94213%
- Food & beverage$6,11986%
- Education$330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axonics, Inc. | 43 | $1,969 |
| Boston Scientific | 26 | $1,725 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 47 | $746 |
| Neotract Inc. | 9 | $427 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 18 | $368 |
| Teleflex LLC | 13 | $259 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 7 | $204 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 8 | $161 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $138 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $97 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 5 | $93 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $70 |
| Abbott | 1 | $66 |
| Valencia Technologies Corporation | 2 | $66 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 4 | $65 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $58 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 2 | $56 |
| Bayer | 2 | $52 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $38 |
| Halozyme Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Novartis | 1 | $28 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $21 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$7,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GemtesaVibegron | 34 | $30,397 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 25 | $20,860 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 34 | $2,679 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 169 | $1,818 |
| Estradiol | 17 | $1,048 |
| Cefdinir | 28 | $567 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 24 | $533 |
| Finasteride | 37 | $528 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 22 | $240 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 11 | $233 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 36 | $186 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 47 | $152 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 14 | $118 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 21 | $68 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $56 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $161 | $30,39734 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $70 | $20,86025 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 65th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.
Other urology in Austin
- Michael TrotterAustin$892K
- Varun SundaramAustin$400K
- Elizabeth MobleyAustin$283K
- Parviz KavoussiAustin$251K
- Peter RuffAustin$168K
- Zvi SchiffmanHouston$17.8M
- Jose de la CerdaSan Antonio$9M
- Daniel SaltzsteinSan Antonio$5.8M
- Jose KaramHouston$5.7M
- Daniel ZainfeldSan Antonio$4.7M
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.