Matthew Sims, MD
Urology · Germantown, TNNPI 1184119455
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 175 payments — averaging $51.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Urogen Pharma, Inc.$610
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$557
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$440
- Calyxo, Inc.$392
- Teleflex LLC$379
- plus $4K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,21514%
- Food & beverage$7,00578%
- Education$7458%
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 | 36 | $3,030 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $610 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 22 | $557 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $440 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 3 | $392 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $379 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $371 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $334 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 12 | $330 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 6 | $326 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Merck | 9 | $199 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $192 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $168 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Bayer | 5 | $82 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $64 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 2 | $52 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $38 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $32 |
| Novartis | 1 | $23 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $14 |
| Valencia Technologies Corporation | 1 | $10 |
| Pharmaand GmbH | 1 | $9 |
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.
- CVAC Aspiration System$351
- AMS 700 CXR RTE KIT$338
- JELMYTO$281
- Prolaris$249
- Barrigel$176
- Nanoknife$151
- PROVENGE$146
- AMS$123
- INTERSTIM$117
- GENERAL ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION$105
- UroLift$103
- iTIND System$102
- rezum Generator$101
How this compares
$8,966 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 276 urology providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 122 | $1,960 |
| Estradiol | 16 | $1,043 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 11 | $593 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 16 | $581 |
| Finasteride | 33 | $565 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 19 | $381 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Germantown
- Paul EberGermantown$795K
- Adam StewartGermantown$487K
- Michael GranieriGermantown$242K
- Ravi ChauhanGermantown$182K
- William ShappleyGermantown$17K
- William ShappleyGermantown$15K
- John AdamsGermantown$14K
- Gautam JayramNashville$16.1M
- David MorrisHendersonville$7.3M
- David PensonNashville$4.4M
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.