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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,404 in general payments to Mashonna Austin, MD across 34 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 Mashonna Austin, 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 Mashonna Austin, 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.

Mashonna Austin, MD

Surgery · Paintsville, KYNPI 1083828206

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,404in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $41.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$853
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$129
Polynovo North America LLC$89
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.$58
Vertex$57
Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$56
plus $162 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$85361%
Food & beverage$55139%

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
Intuitive Surgical	5	$853
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$129
Polynovo North America LLC	5	$89
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.	4	$58
Vertex	2	$57
Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited	3	$56
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$46
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$42
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$28
Teleflex LLC	1	$17
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$16
Smith+Nephew	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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$828

How this compares

$1,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$30,861

Medicare patients

Services billed

325

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
Meropenem	18	$7,159
LinzessLinaclotide	12	$6,522
Sucralfate	39	$2,002
Lubiprostone	15	$1,391
Colestipol Hcl	18	$995
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	60	$872
Fluorouracil	11	$788
Esomeprazole Magnesium	27	$219
Pantoprazole Sodium	20	$136
Dicyclomine Hcl	11	$103
Omeprazole	14	$96
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	19	$56
Levofloxacin	12	$49
Famotidine	15	$42

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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John RothLexington$1.6M
Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
John OldhamLouisville$515K
George MundayDanville$271K
Amber KoonHenderson$210K
George BushBowling Green$120K
Frank MillerLouisville$119K
David VictorMorehead$113K
Jared DavisLouisville$89K

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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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