Robert Charles, MD
Urology · Abington, PANPI 1528008463
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 129 payments — averaging $22.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$482
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$389
- Bayer$385
- Boston Scientific$269
- Johnson & Johnson$228
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$128
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,84097%
- Education$933%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 32 | $482 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 11 | $389 |
| Bayer | 12 | $385 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $269 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 14 | $228 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 5 | $128 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $96 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $94 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $91 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $72 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 4 | $66 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 3 | $64 |
| Merck | 3 | $60 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Novartis | 1 | $26 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Dentsply IH Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$2,934 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 53 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Abington
- Laurence BelkoffBala Cynwyd$18.7M
- Paul SieberLancaster$12.6M
- Costas LallasPhiladelphia$3.6M
- John AndersonBethlehem$2.1M
- Jodi MaranchiePittsburgh$1.2M
- Kenneth LessansLancaster$943K
- Stanley MalkowiczPhiladelphia$882K
- Demetrius BagleyPhiladelphia$739K
- Gregory TasianPhiladelphia$645K
- Eugene PietzakPhiladelphia$544K
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.