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

Kristopher Whitehead

Urology Tupelo, MS Medical Doctor

NPI 1700057106 CMS profile 77386

499 Gloster Creek Vlg, Suite A1, Tupelo, MS 38801

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General payments

$16,697

309 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$7,000

1 holding reported · through program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Kristopher Whitehead of Tupelo, MS is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $16,697 across 309 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $7,000 across 1 holding.

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 88th percentile of Urology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $5,586 59
2024 General $1,787 61
2023 General $1,427 53
2022 General $5,047 45
2021 General $739 26
2020 General $927 25
2019 General $1,184 40
2025 Ownership $7,000 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Kristopher Whitehead were reported at $5,586. 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 Kristopher Whitehead Urology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,184 $480 $147–$1,201 $163
2020 $927 $246 $87–$645 $114
2021 $739 $358 $111–$1,000 $132
2022 $5,047 $476 $143–$1,263 $149
2023 $1,427 $560 $168–$1,461 $160
2024 $1,787 $563 $170–$1,464 $164
2025 $5,586 $629 $190–$1,620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $8,190 4 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $2,853 36 payments
  3. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $826 32 payments
  4. AbbVie, Inc. $811 50 payments
  5. Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $455 24 payments
  6. Astellas Pharma US Inc $416 26 payments
  7. Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC $310 9 payments
  8. Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. $256 12 payments
  9. NeoTract Inc. $242 4 payments
  10. Urogen Pharma, Inc. $227 13 payments
  11. Other $2,109 99 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,167 301 payments
  2. Education $8,123 4 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $407 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System $8,190 4 payments
  2. ERLEADA $679 31 payments
  3. LithoVue $605 7 payments
  4. BOTOX $570 34 payments
  5. Tria Firm $487 5 payments
  6. XTANDI $483 32 payments
  7. General - Kidney Stone Disease $438 4 payments
  8. GEMTESA $423 21 payments
  9. XIAFLEX $340 16 payments
  10. PROVENGE $310 9 payments
  11. Other $5,516 215 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 · 27 drugs

Part D claims

1,312

Median for Urology: 1,053

Drug cost

$390,117

Median for Urology: $101,464

Branded share of claims

43.4%

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 11 $158,454
Orgovyx Relugolix Brand 49 $130,101
Myrbetriq Mirabegron Brand 73 $56,496
Gemtesa Vibegron Brand 42 $27,627
Tamsulosin Hcl Generic 256 $3,610
Alfuzosin Hcl Er Alfuzosin Hcl Brand 93 $2,095
Nitrofurantoin Mono-Macro Nitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst Brand 66 $1,882
Methenamine Hippurate Generic 31 $1,594
Finasteride Generic 87 $1,485
Testosterone Cypionate Generic 41 $1,415

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 27 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 · 117 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$426,243

Of which drugs: $26,657

Medicare patients

972

Average age 76

Services billed

22,387

326 women, 646 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 55%
Ischemic heart disease 47%
Chronic kidney disease 32%
Diabetes 31%
Atrial fibrillation 25%
Cancer 25%
Depression 22%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, tobramycin sulfate, up to 80 mg J3260 Office 28 50 $82
Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg J0696 Office 37 116 $39

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 15 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
BOTOX
  • AbbVie, Inc. $321
$321 — —
GEMTESA
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $129
$129 42 —
ERLEADA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $127
$127 — —
AKEEGA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $127
$127 — —
XIAFLEX
  • Endo USA, Inc. $43
  • Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. $31
$74 — —

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

309 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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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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