Augustus Lyons, MD
Surgery · Arlington, TXNPI 1487627972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,014 of the $7,674 with a category attached, or 78.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.8% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,297 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $246 in 2025.
Across 74 payments — averaging $103.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- AbbVie$195
- Medtronic$148
- Johnson & Johnson$132
- TELA Bio, Inc.$113
- Teleflex LLC$85
- plus $568 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,66022%
- Education$6,01478%
General payments by program year
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $6,434 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $195 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $148 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $132 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 9 | $113 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $85 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $79 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $73 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $51 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $42 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$6,000
- EndoFlip$108
How this compares
$7,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 17 | $18,333 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 55 | $633 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 17 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Arlington
- Winston ChanArlington$209K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
- Nancy MarquezAustin$700K
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
- Alejandro EsquivelAustin$631K
- Erik WilsonBellaire$610K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.