John Bell

What was reported, 2019–2025

$5,217

General payments

19 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.

$2,000

Research payments

Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.

$0

Ownership and investment

The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.

0

Disputed

This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.

How this compares

General payments: $5,217, 2019–⁠2025

By the amount companies reported, 4,150th among the 12,393 profiles with general payments in Urology.

General payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total

Nationally	192,323rd of 1,688,859
In Kentucky	3,038th of 25,287
In Urology	4,150th of 12,393
Profiles below it nationally	More than 88%
Share of the national total	< 0.1%

Research payments: $2,000, 2019–⁠2025

By the amount companies reported, 184th among the 342 profiles named on research payments in Urology.

Research payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total

Nationally	13,116th of 22,827
In Kentucky	115th of 197
In Urology	184th of 342
Profiles below it nationally	More than 42%
Share of the national total	< 0.1%

What the payments were

Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.

By program year

CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.

The record

National Provider Identifier

1609195692

The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.

Specialty

Urology

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians, in CMS's taxonomy.

Licensed in

WI

The state of the license CMS lists first.

Recipient type

Covered Recipient Physician

How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.

Medicare prescribing

What this provider billed to Medicare Part D in 2024, as CMS published it. Medicare Part D only: what they prescribed outside it is not here.

864

Claims

Prescriptions and refills billed to Part D, as CMS counts them.

$92,573

Total drug cost

What Part D, the plan and the patient paid together. Not what this provider was paid — they are paid nothing out of it.

226

Beneficiaries

People with at least one prescription from this provider.

Withheld

Brand-name claims

Of the claims above, those for a brand-name drug. CMS withheld this value and marked it "#". It publishes two markers and two reasons — a value between 1 and 10, or one withheld so another cannot be worked out — without saying which marker means which.

726

Generic claims

Of the claims above, those for a generic.

14

Opioid claims

CMS puts this provider's opioid prescribing rate at 1.6203703703703702% of their claims. That is their figure, computed from their own unsuppressed data.

168

Antibiotic claims

Claims for an antibiotic.

Urology

Prescriber type

As CMS classifies this prescriber. Credentials: M.D..

A blank is not a zero. CMS withholds a value between 1 and 10, and withholds the next lowest alongside it so the first cannot be worked out by subtraction — so a withheld figure is not even evidence that the number was small. Rows for ten or fewer claims are removed from the file altogether, which is why the parts of a total can be withheld while the total is published.

Elsewhere

• Payments to doctors in Kentucky — what was reported across the state this doctor practises in.
• What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
• This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
• The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.