Theodore Shepard
Urology · Murfreesboro, TNNPI 1699756551
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 130 payments — averaging $16.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$484
- AbbVie$339
- Urovant Sciences Inc$212
- Rochester Medical Corporation$162
- Boston Scientific$150
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$89
- plus $734 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,14499%
- Education$261%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 32 | $484 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 22 | $339 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 11 | $212 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 9 | $162 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $150 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 6 | $89 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $84 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 4 | $74 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 3 | $73 |
| Coloplast | 5 | $71 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Bayer | 2 | $39 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $27 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 2 | $27 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $21 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
How this compares
$2,171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 276 urology providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 15 | $196 |
| Finasteride | 12 | $124 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Murfreesboro
- Gautam JayramNashville$16.1M
- David MorrisHendersonville$7.3M
- David PensonNashville$4.4M
- L KnollNashville$2.1M
- David GubinMemphis$1M
- Paul EberGermantown$795K
- Roger DmochowskiNashville$792K
- Melissa KaufmanNashville$617K
- Amy LuckenbaughNashville$547K
- Adam StewartGermantown$487K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.