Who Paid My Doc
K Austen
Rheumatology Boston, MA Medical Doctor
NPI 1821048398 CMS profile 263897
Smiths Building Room 638, Bwh Rheumatology Immunology And Allergy, Boston, MA 02115
General payments
$18,626
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2020, K Austen of Boston, MA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $18,626 across 11 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 81st percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
2 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | General | $12,413 | 5 | |
| 2019 | General | $6,214 | 6 |
Beside peers
- K Austen
- Rheumatology median
- Middle half of Rheumatology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to K Austen were reported at $0. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.
Show as a table
| Year | K Austen | Rheumatology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $6,214 | $744 | $153–$2,687 | $163 |
| 2020 | $12,413 | $462 | $98–$2,027 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $531 | $101–$2,153 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $627 | $125–$2,303 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $741 | $145–$2,524 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $830 | $166–$2,660 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $903 | $171–$2,775 | $169 |
Breakdown
Records
11 reportedEvery 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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.