Has Bailey Estes received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $34,336 in general payments to Bailey Estes across 345 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 Bailey Estes 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 Bailey Estes 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.

Bailey Estes

Gerontology · Abilene, TXNPI 1023744141

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.3%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Shockwave Medical, Inc at 44.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $21,030 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $153 in 2025. Among gerontology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$34,336in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 345 payments — averaging $99.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Shockwave Medical, Inc$15K
Abiomed$8K
Edwards Lifesciences$7K
Abbott$2K
Medtronic$731
Cordis US CORP.$334
plus $873 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2001%
Speaking & faculty fees$16,60048%
Travel & lodging$4,61113%
Food & beverage$12,92538%

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
Shockwave Medical, Inc	31	$15,408
Abiomed	84	$8,088
Edwards Lifesciences	154	$7,175
Abbott	19	$1,728
Medtronic	30	$731
Cordis US CORP.	4	$334
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	3	$263
Teleflex LLC	2	$165
AstraZeneca	8	$144
Amgen	3	$119
Boston Scientific	2	$81
Merck	3	$46
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$32
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$24

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.

Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$15,011
Impella$5,710
SUPERA$820
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$272
Diamondback Coronary$250
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$243
OPTIS$204
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$175
GUIDELINER$147
Diamondback Peripheral$137
Infiniti$137
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$103

How this compares

$34,336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 653 gerontology providers in Texas.

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Other gerontology in Abilene

Lenora TaylorAbilene$7K
Kristan SwineyAbilene$4K
Kimberly WelchCoppell$113K
Tiffany KesslerDallas$84K
Jennifer WestFort Worth$67K
Scott ZelaHouston$28K
Marissa Marti-SmithDallas$27K
Andrew BargerAustin$22K
Meagan ChavarriaHouston$21K
Samantha BoggsGalveston$15K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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