Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Galen Howard

Urology Denton, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1558483552 CMS profile 24801

3537 S Interstate 35 E Ste 315, Denton, TX 76210

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General payments

$8,782

397 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Galen Howard of Denton, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,782 across 397 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 78th percentile of Urology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,351 98
2024 General $1,651 70
2023 General $1,871 93
2022 General $1,515 74
2021 General $575 29
2020 General $298 12
2019 General $521 21

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Galen Howard
  • Urology median
  • Middle half of Urology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Galen Howard were reported at $2,351. Among 9,461 Urology profiles paid that year, the median was $629 and the middle half received between $190 and $1,620.

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Year Galen Howard Urology median Middle half National median
2019 $521 $480 $147–$1,201 $163
2020 $298 $246 $87–$645 $114
2021 $575 $358 $111–$1,000 $132
2022 $1,515 $476 $143–$1,263 $149
2023 $1,871 $560 $168–$1,461 $160
2024 $1,651 $563 $170–$1,464 $164
2025 $2,351 $629 $190–$1,620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Astellas Pharma US Inc $1,123 53 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $831 22 payments
  3. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $672 30 payments
  4. Accord Healthcare, Inc. $656 43 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $590 25 payments
  6. Axonics Modulation Technologies, Inc. $555 22 payments
  7. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $553 26 payments
  8. Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC $467 18 payments
  9. Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $427 24 payments
  10. PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation $301 8 payments
  11. Other $2,607 126 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,351 392 payments
  2. Education $431 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XTANDI $1,042 55 payments
  2. ERLEADA $653 29 payments
  3. CAMCEVI $623 41 payments
  4. Nubeqa $553 26 payments
  5. ORGOVYX Oncology $488 24 payments
  6. PROVENGE $467 18 payments
  7. ORGOVYX Hormone Therapy $431 19 payments
  8. Axonics $374 12 payments
  9. MYRBETRIQ $359 23 payments
  10. XYOSTED $229 12 payments
  11. Other $4,228 189 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 32 drugs

Part D claims

4,308

Median for Urology: 1,053

Drug cost

$3,701,229

Median for Urology: $101,464

Branded share of claims

51.7%

Median for Urology: 27.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Xtandi Enzalutamide Brand 124 $1,704,047
Orgovyx Relugolix Brand 373 $958,538
Erleada Apalutamide Brand 44 $637,147
Myrbetriq Mirabegron Brand 409 $243,980
Gemtesa Vibegron Brand 116 $59,884
Mirabegron Er Mirabegron Brand 76 $41,053
Tamsulosin Hcl Generic 876 $9,596
Estradiol Generic 140 $9,491
Alfuzosin Hcl Er Alfuzosin Hcl Brand 474 $7,989
Finasteride Generic 578 $6,496

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 32 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 10,221 Part D prescribers listed as Urology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 106 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$447,865

Of which drugs: $162,430

Medicare patients

923

Average age 75

Services billed

9,676

235 women, 688 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 49%
Ischemic heart disease 42%
Diabetes 31%
Cancer 30%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
Atrial fibrillation 26%
Heart failure 20%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Leuprolide injectable, camcevi, 1 mg J1952 Office 11 673 $30,240
Injection, garamycin, gentamicin, up to 80 mg J1580 Office 22 22 $42

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 21 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
PROVENGE
  • Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC $153
$153 — —
Nubeqa
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $135
$135 — —
ORGOVYX
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $74
  • PFIZER INC. $45
$119 373 —
JELMYTO
  • UROGEN PHARMA, INC. $83
$83 — —
ADSTILADRIN
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $80
$80 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

397 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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