Pamela Baron, MD
Urology · Kalamazoo, MINPI 1912149683
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 181 payments — averaging $29.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$624
- Urogen Pharma, Inc.$483
- AbbVie$354
- Boston Scientific$315
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$291
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$83316%
- Food & beverage$4,21880%
- Education$2014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $1,739 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 30 | $624 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $483 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $354 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $315 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 16 | $291 |
| Caldera Medical, Inc | 2 | $186 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 9 | $152 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $114 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $106 |
| Coloplast | 5 | $100 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $60 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 2 | $50 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Vertex | 2 | $40 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Bayer | 2 | $32 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $31 |
| Curium US LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $21 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $20 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $16 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 1 | $12 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$5,252 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 400 urology providers in Michigan.
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 | 233 | $173,673 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 44 | $27,006 |
| Trospium Chloride ErTrospium Chloride | 81 | $14,540 |
| Mirabegron ErMirabegron | 28 | $11,860 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 275 | $7,032 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 37 | $5,800 |
| Estradiol | 80 | $4,917 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 117 | $3,856 |
| Trimethoprim | 33 | $2,525 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 35 | $2,366 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 88 | $1,573 |
| Finasteride | 71 | $1,428 |
| NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal | 31 | $990 |
| Cephalexin | 272 | $753 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 39 | $749 |
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 | $624 | $173,673233 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $291 | $27,00644 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 65th percentile of 400 urology providers in Michigan.
Other urology in Kalamazoo
- Jason HafronWest Bloomfield$9.9M
- Ashok ReddySterling Heights$4.9M
- Kenneth KernenTroy$3.4M
- James PeabodyDetroit$2.1M
- William RobertsAnn Arbor$973K
- Adam GadzinskiRoyal Oak$727K
- William JohnstonLivonia$675K
- Kenneth PetersRoyal Oak$590K
- Khurshid GhaniAnn Arbor$550K
- Richard BennettRoyal Oak$368K
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.