Michael Knox, MD
Urology · Paducah, KYNPI 1518160910
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,553 of the $3,952 with a category attached, or 89.9%. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 188 payments — averaging $21.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$612
- Boston Scientific$563
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$441
- Intuitive Surgical$405
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$318
- Pfizer$168
- plus $1K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1985%
- Food & beverage$3,55390%
- Education$2025%
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(3 entities) | 32 | $612 |
| Boston Scientific | 29 | $563 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 23 | $441 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $405 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 9 | $318 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $168 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 7 | $136 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 6 | $124 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $111 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $108 |
| Coloplast | 5 | $100 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 4 | $90 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 4 | $60 |
| Abbott | 4 | $59 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 2 | $55 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $53 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Bayer | 2 | $32 |
| Valencia Technologies Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $25 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Photocure Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $19 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $17 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,952 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 139 urology providers in Kentucky.
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 | 269 | $3,902 |
| Finasteride | 120 | $1,412 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 12 | $469 |
| Cephalexin | 130 | $294 |
| NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal | 11 | $264 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 22 | $238 |
| Dutasteride | 14 | $228 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 53 | $168 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 49 | $133 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 20 | $130 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 40 | $58 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 11 | $56 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 14 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Paducah
- Patrick EllisonPaducah$7K
- Donald SpicerPaducah$4K
- Thomas SlabaughLexington$102K
- Uzoma AneleLouisville$60K
- Lee EvansHopkinsville$56K
- Patrick HensleyLexington$50K
- Brooke EdwardsCrestview Hills$45K
- Robert LarkeCrestview Hills$22K
- Stephen MonnigLexington$18K
- Kellen ChoiLouisville$17K
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.