Has Kenny Lin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,368 in general payments to Kenny Lin, MD across 29 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 Kenny Lin, 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 Kenny Lin, 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.

Kenny Lin, MD

Otology & Neurotology · Houston, TXNPI 1548502925

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,844 of the $2,368 with a category attached, or 77.9%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cochlear Americas at 33.5% of the total.

$2,368in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $81.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Cochlear Americas$793
Acera Surgical, Inc.$320
Advanced Bionics, LLC$272
Kerecis Limited$237
Medtronic$223
Sanofi$169
plus $355 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$52422%
Food & beverage$1,84478%

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
Cochlear Americas	5	$793
Acera Surgical, Inc.	5	$320
Advanced Bionics, LLC	4	$272
Kerecis Limited	1	$237
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$223
Sanofi	2	$169
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$165
Olympus America Inc.	2	$131
ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc.	1	$24
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$21
Acclarent, Inc	1	$14

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.

Kerecis SurgiClose$947
Baha$744
Nucleus$497
Osia$497
DUPIXENT$300
Restrata Wound Matrix$270
Cochlear Nucleus CI632 cochlear implant with Slim Modiolar electrode$248
OSIA OSI300 IMPLANT$248
Kerecis GraftGuide$237
ORBEYE SURGICAL MICROSCOPE$115
Acclarent Aera$106
Inspira Air$106
RELIEVA SPINPLUS NAV$106
TruDi Probe$106

How this compares

$2,368 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 33 otology & neurotology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$229,737

Medicare patients

741

Services billed

2,261

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
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	70	$8,107
Azelastine Hcl	150	$3,256
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	33	$1,334
Fluticasone Propionate	94	$1,201
Neomycin-Polymyxin-HydrocortNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Hydrocort	18	$859
Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate	12	$700
Triamterene-HydrochlorothiazidTriamterene/Hydrochlorothiazid	75	$612
Ofloxacin	20	$572
Methylprednisolone	58	$397
Meclizine Hcl	16	$355
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	79	$320
Cephalexin	50	$276
Amitriptyline Hcl	32	$172
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	20	$158
Topiramate	16	$127

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Mark NicholsHouston$5K
George McReynoldsHouston$2K
Nathan LindquistHouston$2K
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Chenxi YouHouston$541
Bechara GhorayebHouston$215
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Joe KutzDallas$95K

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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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