Michael Wierschem
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 117 payments — averaging $49.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coloplast$3K
- Boston Scientific$862
- Baxter Healthcare$550
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$408
- Johnson & Johnson$142
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$130
- plus $645 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$55010%
- Food & beverage$5,07788%
- Education$1513%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coloplast | 41 | $3,041 |
| Boston Scientific | 16 | $862 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $550 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 20 | $408 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $142 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $130 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $75 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 3 | $47 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 2 | $36 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 2 | $27 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $19 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 1 | $13 |
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.
- TITAN$1,870
- FLOSEAL$550
- GENERAL BPH$284
- SPACEOAR VUE$157
- AMBICOR$131
- PENILE & TESTICULAR RECONSTRUCTN$129
- Dormia$129
- Erleada$121
- ZYTIGA$121
- IMAJIN$107
- PROVENGE$103
How this compares
$5,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 25 | $276 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Plano
- Zvi SchiffmanHouston$17.8M
- Jose de la CerdaSan Antonio$9M
- Daniel SaltzsteinSan Antonio$5.8M
- Jose KaramHouston$5.7M
- Daniel ZainfeldSan Antonio$4.7M
- Brian MazzarellaLakeway$4.5M
- Andrew von EschenbachMontgomery$3.2M
- Raj SatkunasivamHouston$2.6M
- Alan SkolnickHouston$2.4M
- Homa PorterDallas$1.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.