Lee Schachter, MD
Urology · Abington, PANPI 1659328920
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 307 payments — averaging $33.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Bayer$2K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$1K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$1K
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$1K
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$334
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8989%
- Food & beverage$8,78386%
- Education$5325%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 69 | $1,781 |
| Bayer | 47 | $1,577 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 3 | $1,157 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 50 | $1,132 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 21 | $1,084 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $334 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 3 | $312 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $267 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $244 |
| Merck | 12 | $230 |
| Novartis | 9 | $205 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 10 | $196 |
| Teleflex LLC | 7 | $194 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $162 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $151 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Amgen | 3 | $132 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 5 | $112 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 4 | $90 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $84 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $80 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $75 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 3 | $46 |
| Palette Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $29 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $20 |
| Curium US LLC | 1 | $19 |
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
$10,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 596 urology providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErleadaApalutamide | 101 | $1,442,589 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 77 | $814,837 |
| OrgovyxRelugolix | 106 | $304,662 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 21 | $264,008 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 98 | $51,365 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 19 | $29,913 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 530 | $8,697 |
| Finasteride | 454 | $7,816 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 124 | $4,646 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 22 | $2,769 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 79 | $1,276 |
| Dutasteride | 27 | $1,169 |
| Doxazosin Mesylate | 64 | $1,155 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 40 | $1,103 |
| Imipramine Hcl | 17 | $514 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonErleada | $1,781 | $1,442,589101 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi, Myrbetriq | $1,132 | $866,203175 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Orgovyx | $196 | $304,662106 claims |
| BayerNubeqa | $1,577 | $264,00821 claims |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLCAbiraterone Acetate | $312 | $29,91319 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 80th percentile of 596 urology providers in Pennsylvania.
Other urology in Abington
- Laurence BelkoffBala Cynwyd$18.7M
- Paul SieberLancaster$12.6M
- Costas LallasPhiladelphia$3.6M
- John AndersonBethlehem$2.1M
- Jodi MaranchiePittsburgh$1.2M
- Kenneth LessansLancaster$943K
- Stanley MalkowiczPhiladelphia$882K
- Demetrius BagleyPhiladelphia$739K
- Gregory TasianPhiladelphia$645K
- Eugene PietzakPhiladelphia$544K
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.