William French, MD
Urology · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1356906283
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 106 payments — averaging $39.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$573
- Pfizer$275
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$210
- Johnson & Johnson$206
- Immunitybio, Inc.$150
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,21529%
- Food & beverage$2,94371%
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 | 13 | $1,666 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 24 | $573 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $275 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 8 | $210 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $206 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $145 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $137 |
| Photocure Inc | 1 | $132 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Merck | 2 | $56 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 3 | $38 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $34 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $30 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Provepharm Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Valencia Technologies Corporation | 1 | $5 |
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.
- Lumenis Pulse 120H$1,215
- Axonics$155
- ANKTIVA$150
- CVAC Aspiration System$145
- Cysview$132
How this compares
$4,158 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 434 urology providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 12 | $7,168 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 35 | $528 |
| Finasteride | 15 | $237 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 20 | $95 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 17 | $69 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Chapel Hill
- Angela SmithChapel Hill$428K
- Culley CarsonChapel Hill$275K
- Mathew RaynorChapel Hill$61K
- Matthew NielsenChapel Hill$47K
- Davis ViprakasitChapel Hill$37K
- Gopal NarangChapel Hill$31K
- David FriedlanderChapel Hill$26K
- David JohnsonChapel Hill$25K
- Richard SutherlandChapel Hill$21K
- Daniel GeorgeDurham$17.6M
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.