Alexa Augustine
Surgical · Phoenix, AZNPI 1831903780
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,186 of the $2,637 with a category attached, or 82.9%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 67 payments — averaging $39.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$577
- Johnson & Johnson$538
- Teleflex LLC$191
- Antares Pharma, Inc.$184
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$150
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$146
- plus $851 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$40015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$512%
- Food & beverage$2,18683%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 7 | $577 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $538 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $191 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $184 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 6 | $150 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $146 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $139 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $138 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 3 | $110 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Vertex | 2 | $51 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $41 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$2,637 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 271 surgical providers in Arizona.
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- Christina CudzewiczPhoenix$7K
- Sarah MullerPhoenix$6K
- Britni FergusonPhoenix$6K
- Tyler KnudsenPhoenix$5K
- Anna LyonsPhoenix$4K
- Christina FriehPhoenix$4K
- Margaret HuntPhoenix$3K
- Richard BassettPhoenix$3K
- Lisa ReinertsonPhoenix$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.