Has Margaret Higgins, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,768 in general payments to Margaret Higgins, MD across 32 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Margaret Higgins, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Margaret Higgins, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Margaret Higgins, MD

Urology · Aurora, CONPI 1811359250

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,768in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $86.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$2K
Cook Medical LLC$264
Coloplast$260
Uromedica, Incorporated$217
Procept Biorobotics Corporation$136
Neotract Inc.$128
plus $167 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,32648%
Food & beverage$1,44152%

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
Boston Scientific	16	$1,595
Cook Medical LLC	4	$264
Coloplast	5	$260
Uromedica, Incorporated	1	$217
Procept Biorobotics Corporation	1	$136
Neotract Inc.	1	$128
Teleflex LLC	2	$105
Medtronic	1	$33
Novus Surgical Consultants	1	$29

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

$2,768 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 225 urology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$129,869

Medicare patients

294

Services billed

2,190

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron	37	$19,342
Estradiol	72	$5,104
Trospium Chloride ErTrospium Chloride	25	$4,584
Methenamine Hippurate	39	$2,844
Trospium Chloride	34	$1,471
Solifenacin Succinate	48	$797
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	30	$591
Tamsulosin Hcl	83	$537
Cefdinir	26	$463
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	35	$222
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	35	$127
Finasteride	22	$94
Levofloxacin	17	$62
Fluconazole	17	$55
Cephalexin	14	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other urology in Aurora

Paul MaroniAurora$234K
Brian FlynnAurora$176K
Al BarqawiAurora$116K
Janet KukrejaAurora$90K
Kirk RedgerAurora$24K
David StraussAurora$16K
Kerri ThurmonAurora$16K
David CahnGolden$12.1M
Lawrence KarshDenver$9.7M
Alexandra RogersLafayette$541K

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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.

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