Luke Austin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Sewell, NJNPI 1629195532
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,178,423 of the $2,947,448 with a category attached, or 73.9%. Ignite Orthopedics, LLC accounts for 61.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $887,009, more than ten times the $31,469 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NJ 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.
Across 217 payments — averaging $13,583 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ignite Orthopedics, LLC$1.8M
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$936K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$184K
- Arthrex$1K
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$753
- Johnson & Johnson$737
- plus $928 from 7 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $738.67 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.
- Zimmer Biomet$11K
Across 6 payments — averaging $228,966 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Ignite Orthopedics, LLC$1.4M
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,178,42374%
- Consulting fees$226,9138%
- Travel & lodging$15,0521%
- Food & beverage$4,9470%
- Education$1,2000%
- Ownership interest$520,91418%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ignite Orthopedics, LLC | 37 | $1,823,837 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 20 | $935,747 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 128 | $184,083 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $1,364 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 6 | $753 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $737 |
| Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc. | 3 | $246 |
| Stryker | 4 | $174 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $168 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 2 | $129 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $46 |
| Amgen | 2 | $28 |
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.
- INHANCE$941,843
- GLOBAL$174,082
- BIOLOX DELTA$140,962
- ENDURANCE$893
- NA$259
- Catalyst Total CSR$168
- EQUINOXE$136
- ATTUNE$130
- DYNACORD$129
- IDEAL$124
- HemiCAP Shoulder$121
How this compares
$2,947,448 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 587 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Jersey.
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 orthopaedic surgery in Sewell
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
- Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
- Harlan LevineMontvale$1.5M
- Jeffrey AbramsPrinceton$1.5M
- Gregg KleinParamus$1.5M
- David NazarianMarlton$1.3M
- Michael AstParamus$1.3M
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.