Thomas Mertz
Urology · Roseville, MINPI 1659337137
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $21.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$181
- Rochester Medical Corporation$152
- Johnson & Johnson$136
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$124
- Merck$119
- Teleflex LLC$118
- plus $725 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,556100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $181 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 5 | $152 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $136 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $124 |
| Merck | 3 | $119 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $90 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $84 |
| Coloplast | 5 | $83 |
| Dentsply IH Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 2 | $46 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Amgen | 2 | $36 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Bayer | 2 | $32 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $27 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Isoray, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 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.
- AMS 700$145
- UroLift System$118
How this compares
$1,556 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 400 urology providers in Michigan.
Other urology in Roseville
- Jason HafronWest Bloomfield$9.9M
- Ashok ReddySterling Heights$4.9M
- Kenneth KernenTroy$3.4M
- James PeabodyDetroit$2.1M
- William RobertsAnn Arbor$973K
- Adam GadzinskiRoyal Oak$727K
- William JohnstonLivonia$675K
- Kenneth PetersRoyal Oak$590K
- Khurshid GhaniAnn Arbor$550K
- Richard BennettRoyal Oak$368K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.