Michael Zimmerman, MD
Emergency Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1518909647
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,008 of the $3,144 with a category attached, or 63.8%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Modernatx, Inc. at 45.5% of the total. 2024 is the largest year on record at $1,488, 6.6 times the $226 reported in 2022. Among emergency medicine 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.
Across 20 payments — averaging $157.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$1K
- Eli Lilly$1K
- Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc$226
- Amgen$78
Across 500 payments — averaging $9416.57 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.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$1.6M
- Modernatx, Inc.$1.3M
- Eli Lilly$409K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$326K
- Bavarian Nordic A/s$275K
- Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC$236K
- plus $623K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,00864%
- Food & beverage$1,13736%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 4 | $1,431 |
| Eli Lilly | 14 | $1,410 |
| Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc | 1 | $226 |
| Amgen | 1 | $78 |
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.
How this compares
$3,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,952 emergency medicine providers in Texas.
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 emergency medicine in Austin
- Arthur AbelloAustin$204K
- Truman MillingAustin$61K
- Nadav MorAustin$26K
- Steven ConroyAustin$20K
- John McKinneyTyler$1.9M
- William PeacockHouston$513K
- Myiesha TaylorSunnyvale$369K
- James WilliamsSan Antonio$360K
- Armando MolinaEl Paso$290K
- Farid DharamsiDallas$159K
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.