Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

William Townsend

Urology Charlotte, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1619231321 CMS profile 8805315

325 Hawthorne Ln Ste 300, Charlotte, NC 28204

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General payments

$7,979

201 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, William Townsend of Charlotte, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $7,979 across 201 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 76th percentile of Urology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,697 45
2024 General $1,512 48
2023 General $1,909 61
2022 General $2,593 45
2021 General $269 2

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to William Townsend were reported at $1,697. 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 William Townsend Urology median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $480 $147–$1,201 $163
2020 $0 $246 $87–$645 $114
2021 $269 $358 $111–$1,000 $132
2022 $2,593 $476 $143–$1,263 $149
2023 $1,909 $560 $168–$1,461 $160
2024 $1,512 $563 $170–$1,464 $164
2025 $1,697 $629 $190–$1,620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Boston Scientific Corporation $968 17 payments
  2. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $897 4 payments
  3. Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC $767 20 payments
  4. Astellas Pharma US Inc $625 30 payments
  5. PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation $444 4 payments
  6. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $399 9 payments
  7. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $381 14 payments
  8. Medtronic, Inc. $360 8 payments
  9. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $306 9 payments
  10. AbbVie, Inc. $305 18 payments
  11. Other $2,528 68 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,341 192 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,439 7 payments
  3. Education $200 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System $772 3 payments
  2. PROVENGE $767 20 payments
  3. XTANDI $750 41 payments
  4. AdVance XP $615 6 payments
  5. AQUABEAM ROBOTIC SYSTEM $421 3 payments
  6. Xofigo $399 9 payments
  7. Nubeqa $399 9 payments
  8. ERLEADA $381 14 payments
  9. INTERSTIM $360 8 payments
  10. LUPRON DEPOT $276 16 payments
  11. Other $3,169 102 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 · 31 drugs

Part D claims

3,923

Median for Urology: 1,053

Drug cost

$24,163,624

Median for Urology: $101,464

Branded share of claims

61.8%

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
Erleada Apalutamide Brand 662 $9,575,773
Nubeqa Darolutamide Brand 492 $6,371,411
Xtandi Enzalutamide Brand 376 $5,226,770
Yonsa Abiraterone Acet,submicronized Brand 129 $1,326,360
Orgovyx Relugolix Brand 466 $1,240,102
Abiraterone Acetate Generic 257 $291,662
Gemtesa Vibegron Brand 98 $86,400
Myrbetriq Mirabegron Brand 32 $30,144
Tamsulosin Hcl Generic 369 $5,066
Finasteride Generic 126 $1,303

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 31 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 · 93 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$390,726

Of which drugs: $228,673

Medicare patients

617

Average age 76

Services billed

3,934

65 women, 552 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%
Cancer 64%
Arthritis 38%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Chronic kidney disease 33%
Diabetes 27%
Atrial fibrillation 22%
Depression 13%
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 acetate (for depot suspension), 7.5 mg J9217 Office 131 682 $93,583
Injection, garamycin, gentamicin, up to 80 mg J1580 Office 19 33 $65

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 12 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 $333
$333 — —
Nubeqa
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $147
$147 492 —
Xofigo
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $147
$147 — —
ERLEADA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $99
$99 662 —
XTANDI
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc $83
  • PFIZER INC. $13
$96 376 —

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

201 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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