Michael Rees, MD
Urology · Toledo, OHNPI 1356337521
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,396 of the $1,947 with a category attached, or 71.7%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.5%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $898 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $24 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $2,547.
Across 18 payments — averaging $108.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dornier Medtech America, Inc$418
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$351
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$200
- Olympus America Inc.$173
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$158
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$144
- plus $503 from 8 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $71,253 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novartis$214K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$35118%
- Food & beverage$1,39672%
- Education$20010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dornier Medtech America, Inc | 1 | $418 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $351 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $200 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 2 | $144 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $123 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $104 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $34 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Dornier MedTech$418
- LEMTRADA$351
- THYMOGLOBULIN$351
- Envarsus$216
- SpaceOAR VUE System - 10mL$123
- AQUABEAM SYSTEM$118
- Nanoknife$114
- TITAN$104
- iTIND System$103
- Soltive$103
How this compares
$1,947 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 485 urology providers in Ohio.
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.
Other urology in Toledo
- Lawrence GervasiMiddleburg Heights$1.1M
- Howard GoldmanCleveland$721K
- Ronney AbazaWorthington$374K
- Sriharan SivalingamCleveland$276K
- Sandip VasavadaCleveland$263K
- Jihad KaoukCleveland$234K
- Benjamin MartinGahanna$205K
- Ruben OlivaresCleveland$184K
- Abhinav SidanaCincinnati$174K
- Raymond RackleyCleveland$152K
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.