Austin Stone
Sports Medicine · Lexington, KYNPI 1245597780
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 30.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,407 and has fallen 67.6% since, to $1,428 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 67 payments — averaging $229.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$5K
- Bioventus LLC$4K
- Stryker$2K
- Vericel Corporation$2K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$1K
- Xiros Inc$359
- plus $552 from 5 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $121,872 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$244K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,2258%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,53142%
- Travel & lodging$1,83812%
- Food & beverage$4,56730%
- Education$1,2338%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 17 | $4,742 |
| Bioventus LLC | 9 | $4,075 |
| Stryker | 25 | $2,273 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $2,046 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 3 | $1,347 |
| Xiros Inc | 5 | $359 |
| International Life Sciences | 1 | $239 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 1 | $96 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Abanza 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.
- L360 Thigh System$3,330
- MACI$2,025
- NOVOSTITCH$668
- Latarjet System$651
- Q-FIX$651
- Regeneten$630
- Bioness - Other$550
- BIORAPTOR$522
- Hip Pac$522
- ALPHAVENT$375
- REUNION$369
- PROCINCH$327
- PITCH-PATCH$305
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$286
- Dyonics Mini Shaver System$262
- LENS Surgical Imaging System$262
- FLEXBAND$239
- ICONIX$237
- MULTIFIX S$219
- HIPMAP$161
How this compares
$15,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 59 sports medicine providers in Kentucky.
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.
Other sports medicine in Lexington
- Scott MairLexington$59K
- Benjamin WilsonLexington$9K
- Jerrod FelderLexington$6K
- Milton SmootLexington$6K
- Dwan PerryLexington$4K
- Frank TaddeoLexington$2K
- Stephanie BieckerLexington$790
- Scott VicenziLexington$477
- Robert HoseyLexington$118
- William HartleyLexington$71
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.