Michelle Semins, MD
Urology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1578609277
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (55.8%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Incorporated at 38.7% of the total. Among urology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 89 payments — averaging $344.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$12K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$5K
- Novo Nordisk Health Care AG$4K
- Calyxo, Inc.$3K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$205
- plus $599 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,09956%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,80032%
- Travel & lodging$3371%
- Food & beverage$3,43011%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 8 | $11,880 |
| Boston Scientific | 30 | $6,657 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 10 | $4,694 |
| Novo Nordisk Health Care AG | 3 | $3,603 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 16 | $3,029 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 7 | $205 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $201 |
| Coloplast | 3 | $123 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $55 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $45 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Cook$7,350
- (815) Thiola$4,431
- CVAC Aspiration System$2,650
- Cook Medical Dilation/Access$2,450
- GENERAL KIDNEY STONE DISEASE$1,849
- S~Curve$1,100
- Cook Medical Lasers$980
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$513
- Moses 550 D\F\L$500
- LithoVue$250
- Moses$159
- LITHO 150$153
- LithoVue Elite$129
- SPACEOAR VUE$122
- GEMTESA$104
- Moses 550 DFL$102
How this compares
$30,667 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 596 urology providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 21 | $11,616 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 130 | $6,898 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 16 | $1,681 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 115 | $1,297 |
| Chlorthalidone | 75 | $893 |
| Estradiol | 16 | $873 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 16 | $841 |
| Finasteride | 42 | $460 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 53 | $369 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 24 | $222 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 29 | $164 |
| Cefdinir | 15 | $160 |
| Fluconazole | 13 | $95 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $87 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 28 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $64 | $11,61621 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 596 urology providers in Pennsylvania.
Other urology in Pittsburgh
- Quoc-Dien TrinhPittsburgh$111K
- Paul RusilkoPittsburgh$67K
- Kiran SuryPittsburgh$61K
- John AndersonBethlehem$2.1M
- Demetrius BagleyPhiladelphia$739K
- Paul SieberLancaster$631K
- Daniel EunPhiladelphia$226K
- Leonard GomellaPhiladelphia$190K
- Anthony DimatteoButler$189K
- Angelo BaccalaAllentown$166K
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.