Has Sheldon Axelrod, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $525 in general payments to Sheldon Axelrod, MD across 6 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Sheldon Axelrod, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Sheldon Axelrod, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Sheldon Axelrod, MD

Urology · Katonah, NYNPI 1528140217

Payments from drug & device makers

$525in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $87.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Procept Biorobotics Corporation$272
Neotract Inc.$125
Boston Scientific$81
Calyxo, Inc.$27
Merck$19

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$525100%

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
Procept Biorobotics Corporation	2	$272
Neotract Inc.	1	$125
Boston Scientific	1	$81
Calyxo, Inc.	1	$27
Merck	1	$19

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

$525 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$470,022

Medicare patients

1,002

Services billed

7,647

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	153	$111,015
Tamsulosin Hcl	1,420	$25,240
Finasteride	658	$10,292
Estradiol	93	$7,773
Trospium Chloride	82	$3,773
YuvafemEstradiol	40	$3,213
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	86	$2,630
Dutasteride	36	$1,886
Cefdinir	116	$1,628
Tadalafil	16	$1,586
Silodosin	13	$1,427
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride	62	$1,391
Bicalutamide	32	$1,000
Allopurinol	68	$897
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	159	$677

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other urology in Katonah

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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
Gennady BratslavskySyracuse$2.5M
Ashutosh TewariNew York$2.5M
Manish ViraNew Hyde Park$2.1M

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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.

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