Sapan Polepalle, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 300 payments — averaging $45.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coloplast$2K
- Teleflex LLC$2K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Axonics, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- plus $3K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,24131%
- Food & beverage$8,03259%
- Education$1,32210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coloplast | 26 | $2,265 |
| Teleflex LLC | 19 | $2,048 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 47 | $1,573 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $1,476 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 17 | $1,439 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 40 | $1,354 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 35 | $866 |
| Pfizer | 24 | $733 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 16 | $282 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 10 | $256 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $251 |
| Bayer | 9 | $212 |
| Neotract Inc. | 4 | $159 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $121 |
| Merck | 3 | $114 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 3 | $73 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $33 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Novartis | 1 | $27 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Novum Pharma, LLC | 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
$13,594 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 78 | $1,098,244 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 587 | $304,861 |
| ErleadaApalutamide | 18 | $264,886 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 503 | $246,103 |
| OrgovyxRelugolix | 55 | $151,501 |
| TrelstarTriptorelin Pamoate | 38 | $128,497 |
| Lupron DepotLeuprolide Acetate | 11 | $120,919 |
| EligardLeuprolide Acetate | 24 | $49,430 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 15 | $30,931 |
| ElmironPentosan Polysulfate Sodium | 21 | $18,385 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 1,971 | $15,171 |
| ToviazFesoterodine Fumarate | 15 | $5,623 |
| Finasteride | 807 | $4,829 |
| Mirabegron ErMirabegron | 11 | $4,643 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 184 | $3,805 |
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 IncXtandi, Myrbetriq | $1,573 | $1,403,105665 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa, Orgovyx | $866 | $397,604558 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonErleada | $1,354 | $264,88618 claims |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc.Trelstar | $121 | $128,49738 claims |
| AbbVieLupron Depot | $251 | $120,91911 claims |
| PfizerToviaz | $733 | $5,62315 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 80th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.
Other urology in Bronx
- Bhupendra ToliaBronx$257K
- Pedro MariaBronx$242K
- Glen McWilliamsBronx$235K
- Christopher PieczonkaSyracuse$31.2M
- Guarionex DecastroNew York$5.7M
- Mitchell EfrosGarden City$4.2M
- James McKiernanNew York$4.1M
- William HuangNew York$3.9M
- Jed KaminetskyMiddle Village$3.5M
- Evan GoldfischerPoughkeepsie$3.1M
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.