Susan Rusnack, MD
Urology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1790957504
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 201 payments — averaging $27.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Bluewind Medical$513
- Axonics, Inc.$427
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$388
- Pfizer$382
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$301
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$641%
- Food & beverage$5,34796%
- Education$1853%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 55 | $1,331 |
| Bluewind Medical | 7 | $513 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 11 | $427 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 18 | $388 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $382 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 12 | $301 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 8 | $217 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $214 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $183 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $146 |
| Bayer | 6 | $132 |
| Merck | 5 | $120 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 4 | $118 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $107 |
| Profound Medical Corp. | 1 | $88 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $77 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 3 | $70 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Amgen | 2 | $49 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $47 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $43 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 3 | $43 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $15 |
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
$5,596 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,324 urology providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GemtesaVibegron | 415 | $274,251 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 231 | $152,591 |
| EstringEstradiol | 54 | $28,773 |
| Estradiol | 354 | $26,332 |
| ImvexxyEstradiol | 98 | $25,606 |
| PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated | 26 | $10,863 |
| YuvafemEstradiol | 38 | $6,339 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 108 | $5,555 |
| IntrarosaPrasterone (Dhea) | 11 | $2,999 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 166 | $2,593 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 44 | $2,425 |
| Fesoterodine Fumarate ErFesoterodine Fumarate | 14 | $1,385 |
| Cephalexin | 193 | $1,176 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 29 | $1,131 |
| Trospium Chloride | 50 | $1,068 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $301 | $274,251415 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $388 | $152,591231 claims |
| PfizerEstring, Premarin | $382 | $39,63680 claims |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc.Imvexxy | $111 | $25,60698 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 65th percentile of 1,324 urology providers in California.
Other urology in Los Angeles
- Karim ChamieLos Angeles$4.3M
- Siamak DaneshmandLos Angeles$3.5M
- Arnold ChinLos Angeles$3.5M
- John KowalczykLos Angeles$1.8M
- Arie BelldegrunLos Angeles$1.8M
- Mihir DesaiLos Angeles$1.7M
- Brian ShuchLos Angeles$1.5M
- David JosephsonLos Angeles$1.5M
- Saum GhodoussipourLos Angeles$1.1M
- Stuart HoldenLos Angeles$1.1M
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.