Physician Assistant Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Heather Austin

Physician Assistant Salinas, CA Physician Assistant

NPI 1265444582 CMS profile 10810744

212 San Jose St Ste 301, Salinas, CA 93901

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General payments

$219,433

363 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, Heather Austin of Salinas, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $219,433 across 363 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 99th percentile of Physician Assistant 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 $62,165 96
2024 General $61,746 108
2023 General $48,636 98
2022 General $29,351 41
2021 General $17,536 20

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Heather Austin
  • Physician Assistant median
  • Middle half of Physician Assistant
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Heather Austin were reported at $62,165. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.

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Year Heather Austin Physician Assistant median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $34 $17–$122 $163
2020 $0 $33 $16–$78 $114
2021 $17,536 $132 $37–$438 $132
2022 $29,351 $155 $48–$522 $149
2023 $48,636 $167 $52–$557 $160
2024 $61,746 $178 $55–$600 $164
2025 $62,165 $184 $57–$620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $155,351 246 payments
  2. Ethicon US, LLC $59,185 63 payments
  3. Baxter Healthcare $1,848 22 payments
  4. Ethicon Inc. $1,028 2 payments
  5. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $448 6 payments
  6. Abbott Laboratories $419 3 payments
  7. Abiomed $302 4 payments
  8. Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. $296 7 payments
  9. Atricure, Inc. $159 4 payments
  10. LivaNova USA, Inc. $144 1 payment
  11. Other $254 5 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $179,256 117 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $30,640 85 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $9,331 159 payments
  4. Education $206 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. STRATAFIX $159,727 173 payments
  2. DERMABOND $154,583 142 payments
  3. SURGICEL NU-KNIT $87,713 80 payments
  4. MONOCRYL $80,560 82 payments
  5. PDS $80,560 82 payments
  6. EVICEL Fibrin Sealant (Human) $58,112 42 payments
  7. VISTASEAL $47,014 60 payments
  8. SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix $26,415 28 payments
  9. EVARREST $7,064 35 payments
  10. ETHICON $3,342 17 payments
  11. Other $4,900 68 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 · 6 drugs

Part D claims

145

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$1,159

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Physician Assistant: 19.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 19 $424
Potassium Chloride Generic 30 $311
Mupirocin Generic 14 $141
Furosemide Generic 30 $108
Metoprolol Tartrate Generic 22 $91
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 30 $84

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 114,276 Part D prescribers listed as Physician Assistant; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Records

363 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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