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

Christopher Austin

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Jacksonville Beach, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1508178567 CMS profile 918280

1320 Roberts Dr Ste 101, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250

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General payments

$11,985

250 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, Christopher Austin of Jacksonville Beach, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $11,985 across 250 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 38th percentile of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology 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 $1,813 49
2024 General $1,943 55
2023 General $1,203 32
2022 General $1,685 40
2021 General $1,243 36
2020 General $234 14
2019 General $3,864 24

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Christopher Austin
  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median
  • Middle half of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Austin were reported at $1,813. Among 3,064 Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles paid that year, the median was $2,462 and the middle half received between $733 and $7,710.

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Year Christopher Austin Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $3,864 $2,361 $585–$8,260 $163
2020 $234 $993 $247–$4,351 $114
2021 $1,243 $1,185 $326–$4,739 $132
2022 $1,685 $2,073 $554–$6,789 $149
2023 $1,203 $2,568 $759–$8,159 $160
2024 $1,943 $2,557 $703–$7,403 $164
2025 $1,813 $2,462 $733–$7,710 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $3,413 14 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $1,581 35 payments
  3. Biosense Webster, Inc. $1,061 23 payments
  4. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,030 23 payments
  5. Abbott Laboratories $920 18 payments
  6. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $589 2 payments
  7. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $470 28 payments
  8. CVRx, Inc. $339 15 payments
  9. Biotronik Inc. $330 7 payments
  10. Acutus Medical, Inc. $270 4 payments
  11. Other $1,981 81 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,458 243 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $3,450 6 payments
  3. Education $76 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Carto 3 $1,274 12 payments
  2. XARELTO $470 28 payments
  3. AVEIR $388 8 payments
  4. Barostim Neo System $339 15 payments
  5. COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN $314 6 payments
  6. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX $240 2 payments
  7. AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM $216 2 payments
  8. Acticor 7 VR-T DX $205 4 payments
  9. BioMonitor $199 2 payments
  10. Edora 8 DR-T $182 3 payments
  11. Other $6,148 180 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 · 22 drugs

Part D claims

1,446

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$499,027

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

34.9%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 264 $333,762
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 70 $66,183
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 33 $57,585
Dofetilide Generic 103 $24,554
Flecainide Acetate Generic 122 $5,699
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 321 $3,869
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd) Diltiazem Hcl Brand 61 $1,750
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 79 $1,442
Sotalol Sotalol Hcl Brand 65 $1,400
Pantoprazole Sodium Generic 23 $331

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 22 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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 76 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$414,038

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

2,808

Average age 78

Services billed

7,112

1,248 women, 1,560 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%
Atrial fibrillation 68%
Ischemic heart disease 63%
Arthritis 54%
Heart failure 51%
Chronic kidney disease 42%
Diabetes 37%
COPD 26%

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
MULTAQ
  • SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $50
$50 — —
Arcalyst
  • Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $46
$46 — —
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $43
$43 — —
VYNDAQEL
  • PFIZER INC. $37
$37 — —
FUROSCIX
  • SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC. $22
$22 — —

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

250 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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