Financial Relationships between Urologists and Industry: An Analysis of Open Payments Data

Nearly 75% of urologists in United States received nonresearch payments from industry in 2014. Most individual payments were for less than $20 but the majority of urologists received more than $100 in aggregate during the study year, with most of the money going toward speaker fees. Payments were positively correlated with Part D prescribing, yet confounding variables make it difficult to establish a cause and effect relationship.