RxDoctor Payments Data

Susan Pursell, MD

Urology · Bristol, TNNPI 1942220371

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,309in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 109 payments — averaging $21.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$563
  • Teleflex LLC$388
  • Therapeuticsmd, Inc.$386
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$382
  • Coloplast$80
  • Antares Pharma, Inc.$62
  • plus $448 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,10691%
  • Education$2039%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie(2 entities)22$563
Teleflex LLC10$388
Therapeuticsmd, Inc.26$386
Astellas Pharma US Inc23$382
Coloplast1$80
Antares Pharma, Inc.3$62
Boston Scientific2$61
Medtronic(2 entities)4$55
Pfizer3$49
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.2$38
Urovant Sciences Inc2$36
180 Medical, Inc.2$34
Hollister Incorporated1$27
ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc.1$27
Tolmar, Inc.1$24
Olympus America Inc.1$20
Halozyme Inc1$19
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.1$18
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.1$16
Rochester Medical Corporation1$14
Myovant Sciences Inc.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

$2,309 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 276 urology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,626
Medicare patients
295
Services billed
574

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron70$74,590
GemtesaVibegron95$74,545
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride218$9,033
Trospium Chloride ErTrospium Chloride24$7,083
Estradiol55$6,068
Methenamine Hippurate58$4,959
Tamsulosin Hcl187$3,575
Trospium Chloride34$2,162
Solifenacin Succinate17$1,213
Finasteride77$1,180
Testosterone Cypionate37$647
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst57$616
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate13$590
Cephalexin56$344
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim64$186

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$382$74,59070 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$38$74,54595 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 40th percentile of 276 urology providers in Tennessee.

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