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

Francis Buckley

Surgery Austin, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1104816008 CMS profile 94808

1601 Trinity St, Austin, TX 78712

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General payments

$168,633

167 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$17,570 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2023–2025

Through program year 2025, Francis Buckley of Austin, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $168,633 across 167 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $17,570 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Surgery 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 $20,304 13
2024 General $14,891 11
2023 General $15,446 26
2022 General $31,444 25
2021 General $17,045 21
2020 General $32,002 26
2019 General $37,501 45

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Francis Buckley
  • Surgery median
  • Middle half of Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Francis Buckley were reported at $20,304. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.

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Year Francis Buckley Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $37,501 $253 $82–$1,521 $163
2020 $32,002 $131 $40–$706 $114
2021 $17,045 $168 $50–$904 $132
2022 $31,444 $224 $76–$1,218 $149
2023 $15,446 $253 $82–$1,255 $160
2024 $14,891 $279 $90–$1,381 $164
2025 $20,304 $280 $91–$1,259 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $74,755 40 payments
  2. Ethicon US, LLC $33,720 40 payments
  3. TELA Bio, Inc. $18,867 13 payments
  4. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $8,752 10 payments
  5. Medtronic, Inc. $7,879 9 payments
  6. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $5,538 12 payments
  7. Merit Medical Systems Inc $5,400 1 payment
  8. Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. $5,306 4 payments
  9. Ethicon Inc. $3,348 1 payment
  10. Covidien LP $1,452 9 payments
  11. Other $3,616 28 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $143,327 43 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $7,517 105 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $6,975 3 payments
  4. Education $4,000 1 payment
  5. Honoraria $3,655 1 payment
  6. Travel and Lodging $3,159 14 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. LINX Reflux Management System $62,545 46 payments
  2. OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex) $14,652 9 payments
  3. Da Vinci Surgical System $5,538 12 payments
  4. EndoMAXX Stent and delivery system $5,400 1 payment
  5. ESOPHYX $5,400 1 payment
  6. GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial $4,684 6 payments
  7. OviTex 2S $4,215 4 payments
  8. BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement $3,732 2 payments
  9. GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement $3,541 6 payments
  10. GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial $3,204 4 payments
  11. Other $6,309 50 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 · 4 drugs

Part D claims

105

Median for General Surgery: 59

Drug cost

$5,801

Median for General Surgery: $393

Branded share of claims

70.5%

Median for General Surgery: 28.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Erythromycin Erythromycin Base Brand 11 $4,772
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 34 $637
Ondansetron Odt Ondansetron Brand 29 $292
Pantoprazole Sodium Generic 31 $100

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 15,891 Part D prescribers listed as General Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 22 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$58,191

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

92

Average age 73

Services billed

176

61 women, 31 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 49%
Depression 34%
Ischemic heart disease 32%
Osteoporosis 24%
Diabetes 14%
COPD 14%
Cancer 14%

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

1 product · 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
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  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $26
$26 — —

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.

Records

167 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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