RxDoctor Payments Data

Samer Kalakish, MD

Urology · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1093999385

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,678 of the $6,468 with a category attached, or 87.8%. It is spread thinly across 44 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,424, 3.0 times the $476 reported in 2019.

$6,468in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 270 payments — averaging $23.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$965
  • Procept Biorobotics Corporation$921
  • AbbVie$449
  • Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$430
  • Endo USA, Inc.$299
  • Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$293
  • plus $3K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$5078%
  • Food & beverage$5,67888%
  • Education$2834%

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

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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

$6,468 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 139 urology providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$373,197
Medicare patients
1,100
Services billed
24,193

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron20$19,403
GemtesaVibegron19$12,622
Tamsulosin Hcl327$3,866
Finasteride303$3,633
Desmopressin Acetate18$1,664
Estradiol13$1,225
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen174$1,025
Solifenacin Succinate11$794
Oxybutynin Chloride16$432
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl28$313
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil16$236
NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal15$200
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim161$167
Cephalexin65$148
Amoxicillin22$133

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
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$965$19,40320 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$37$12,62219 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 75th percentile of 139 urology providers in Kentucky.

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