Has Austin Albright, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,718 in general payments to Austin Albright, MD across 256 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Austin Albright, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Austin Albright, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Austin Albright, MD

Pain Medicine · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1194144329

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.6%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 63.7% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$13,718in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 256 payments — averaging $53.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$9K
Medtronic$4K
Boston Scientific$403
Vertos Medical, Inc.$249
Nevro Corp.$206
Nalu Medical, Inc.$73
plus $281 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,2259%
Travel & lodging$4,45933%
Food & beverage$8,03359%

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.

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
Abbott	154	$8,738
Medtronic(2 entities)	56	$3,768
Boston Scientific	16	$403
Vertos Medical, Inc.	4	$249
Nevro Corp.	7	$206
Nalu Medical, Inc.	6	$73
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	4	$62
Johnson & Johnson	2	$60
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$45
Globus Medical	2	$44
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$29
Vertex	1	$26
USWM, LLC	1	$15

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

$13,718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 61 pain medicine providers in Utah.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$247,818

Medicare patients

473

Services billed

2,144

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
Buprenorphine	53	$13,514
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	264	$5,986
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	201	$5,503
Pregabalin	57	$1,254
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	24	$835
Gabapentin	47	$801
Oxycodone Hcl	45	$789
Tramadol Hcl	101	$600
Duloxetine Hcl	24	$479
Morphine Sulfate	13	$475
Celecoxib	14	$283
Cephalexin	62	$250
Clindamycin Hcl	28	$209
Tizanidine Hcl	30	$186
Alprazolam	27	$15

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Salt Lake City

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Adam EddingtonSalt Lake City$780
Natalie WinterSalt Lake City$586
Michael JaffeSalt Lake City$555
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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.

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