Michael Austin
Pediatrics · Tyler, TXNPI 1134199284
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 191 payments — averaging $17.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$899
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$851
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$523
- Merck$214
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$212
- Pfizer$160
- plus $472 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,324100%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 42 | $899 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 69 | $851 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 28 | $523 |
| Merck | 10 | $214 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 11 | $212 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $160 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $120 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 3 | $68 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| GSK | 2 | $36 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
- QELBREE$125
How this compares
$3,329 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.
Other pediatrics in Tyler
- Kashif AliHouston$19.1M
- Clifford YutThe Woodlands$10.2M
- Ionela IacobasHouston$10.1M
- Khozema PalanpurwalaHouston$9.7M
- Robert BellBeaumont$9.3M
- John ClintonPort Lavaca$8.6M
- Ronald BlairDallas$7.7M
- Wieslaw JakubowskiCorpus Christi$5M
- Martin YudovichHouston$4.4M
- Carlos BacinoHouston$4.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.