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

Robert Cline

Colon & Rectal Surgery Austin, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1689645194 CMS profile 257584

4106 Medical Parkway Street, Austin, TX 78756

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General payments

$8,798

108 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, Robert Cline of Austin, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,798 across 108 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 74th percentile of Colon & Rectal 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 $6,561 22
2024 General $225 8
2023 General $568 15
2022 General $429 17
2021 General $325 14
2020 General $420 17
2019 General $269 15

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Robert Cline
  • Colon & Rectal Surgery median
  • Middle half of Colon & Rectal Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Robert Cline were reported at $6,561. Among 1,481 Colon & Rectal Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $317 and the middle half received between $109 and $1,248.

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Year Robert Cline Colon & Rectal Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $269 $443 $125–$2,179 $163
2020 $420 $167 $53–$931 $114
2021 $325 $207 $72–$1,272 $132
2022 $429 $341 $111–$1,587 $149
2023 $568 $322 $115–$1,420 $160
2024 $225 $328 $112–$1,354 $164
2025 $6,561 $317 $109–$1,248 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $6,472 19 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $395 11 payments
  3. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $175 7 payments
  4. Axonics Modulation Technologies, Inc. $160 6 payments
  5. Baxter Healthcare $149 6 payments
  6. TELA Bio, Inc. $134 6 payments
  7. THD America, Inc. $123 2 payments
  8. Vioptix Inc $113 1 payment
  9. Davol Inc. $89 4 payments
  10. Lexington Medical, Inc. $88 1 payment
  11. Other $900 45 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Education $4,000 2 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $2,712 98 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $2,086 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. DAVINCI XI $4,000 2 payments
  2. Da Vinci Surgical System $2,472 17 payments
  3. INTERSTIM $337 9 payments
  4. GATTEX $214 9 payments
  5. SEPRAFILM $122 5 payments
  6. Axonics $91 3 payments
  7. Aeon Endostapler & Echelon Flex Powered Stapler $88 1 payment
  8. XERAVA $73 4 payments
  9. Irrisept $71 3 payments
  10. INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE $65 3 payments
  11. Other $1,212 58 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 · 7 drugs

Part D claims

118

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): 106

Drug cost

$209,166

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): $1,614

Branded share of claims

68.6%

Median for Colorectal Surgery (Proctology): 35.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Cimzia (2 Pack) Certolizumab Pegol Brand 11 $119,584
Humira Pen Adalimumab Brand 12 $81,738
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 11 $5,802
Diphenoxylate-Atropine Diphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine Brand 31 $1,698
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass Amoxicillin/Potassium Clav Brand 16 $138
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 22 $124
Metronidazole Generic 15 $81

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 1,507 Part D prescribers listed as Colorectal Surgery (Proctology); they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 71 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$88,463

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

249

Average age 73

Services billed

624

107 women, 142 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 66%
Arthritis 41%
Ischemic heart disease 33%
Cancer 32%
Depression 19%
Diabetes 18%
Atrial fibrillation 16%
Osteoporosis 16%

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
GATTEX
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $23
$23 — —

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

108 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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