RxDoctor Payments Data

Shahram Gholami, MD

Urology · Los Gatos, CANPI 1932272804

Payments from drug & device makers

$138,243in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 628 payments — averaging $220.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$76K
  • Arthrex$18K
  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$9K
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$8K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
  • Johnson & Johnson$3K
  • plus $15K from 51 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$96,98775%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7,8756%
  • Travel & lodging$9,4057%
  • Food & beverage$13,65911%
  • Education$1,1441%

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

$138,243 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,324 urology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,132,916
Medicare patients
638
Services billed
16,029

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
XtandiEnzalutamide32$358,170
MounjaroTirzepatide80$88,835
GemtesaVibegron21$22,815
MyrbetriqMirabegron20$18,504
Silodosin76$8,437
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$7,934
Tamsulosin Hcl423$7,004
EliquisApixaban11$6,579
Estradiol46$4,381
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl136$2,626
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst47$2,015
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate12$1,261
Dutasteride21$1,128
Testosterone14$907
Tadalafil12$525

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 IncXtandi, Myrbetriq$8,429$376,67352 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$1,672$22,81521 claims
PfizerEliquis$2,414$6,57911 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 1,324 urology providers in California.

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