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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,677 in general payments to Austin Harper, MD across 214 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 Harper, 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 Harper, 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 Harper, MD

Pain Medicine · Longview, TXNPI 1336559418

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,677in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 214 payments — averaging $40.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Abbott$2K
Boston Scientific$2K
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$529
Nevro Corp.$411
Wenzel Spine, Inc.$225
plus $1K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,36027%
Food & beverage$6,31773%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	35	$3,164
Abbott	85	$1,673
Boston Scientific	32	$1,547
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	11	$529
Nevro Corp.	10	$411
Wenzel Spine, Inc.	1	$225
Nalu Medical, Inc.	6	$191
Vertos Medical, Inc.	4	$187
AbbVie(2 entities)	8	$134
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$93
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	3	$74
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$71
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	3	$63
Stryker	1	$50
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$48
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$43
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	2	$38
Eisai Inc.	2	$30
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$27
Bioventus LLC	1	$25
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$20
Vertex	1	$18
Globus Medical	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.

INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$2,033
SUPERION$542
Evoke SCS$285
Promalok$225
VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$200
INTELLIS$157
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$139
Octrode SCS Leads$135
PROCLAIM$128
WAVEWRITER ALPHA$120
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$109
Omnia$101

How this compares

$8,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$321,062

Medicare patients

436

Services billed

3,280

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	516	$13,322
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	131	$3,995
Gabapentin	84	$1,064
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	37	$1,004
Pregabalin	47	$675
Tramadol Hcl	59	$487
Methylprednisolone	47	$325
Tizanidine Hcl	40	$300
Duloxetine Hcl	12	$259
Nortriptyline Hcl	33	$239
Meloxicam	44	$140
Diclofenac Sodium	16	$123
Amitriptyline Hcl	13	$68

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Longview

Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$632K
Muhammad ZulqarnainDallas$556K
Daniel PakHouston$460K
Marvin ChangSugar Land$306K
David LeimanHouston$281K
Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
Ellen LinSan Antonio$251K

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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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