RxDoctor Payments Data

Nathan Starke, MD

Urology · Houston, TXNPI 1386936680

Payments from drug & device makers

$63,787in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 330 payments — averaging $193.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$24K
  • Antares Pharma, Inc.$18K
  • Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$7K
  • Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation$7K
  • Coloplast$4K
  • Teleflex LLC$2K
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9,22518%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$21,92844%
  • Travel & lodging$5,38611%
  • Food & beverage$13,85427%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$63,787 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 878 urology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$144,479
Medicare patients
332
Services billed
3,563

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
XyostedTestosterone Enanthate39$29,484
MyrbetriqMirabegron12$9,406
Testosterone Cypionate138$7,418
GemtesaVibegron14$5,740
Testosterone26$2,238
Tamsulosin Hcl123$1,965
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl29$821
Anastrozole98$645
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride22$451
Finasteride39$448
Tadalafil11$324
Levofloxacin47$187
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim29$96
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip11$79
Tramadol Hcl20$68

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Antares Pharma, Inc.Xyosted$18,452$29,48439 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$163$9,40612 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$133$5,74014 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 878 urology providers in Texas.

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