Shawn Tassone
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Austin, TXNPI 1518940808
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 718 payments — averaging $1781.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acessa Health Inc.$1.2M
- Intuitive Surgical$104K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$11K
- Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC$1K
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$409
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$138
- plus $247 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,061,30383%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0000%
- Travel & lodging$104,1438%
- Food & beverage$14,1191%
- Education$98,4508%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acessa Health Inc.(2 entities) | 492 | $1,162,260 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 57 | $103,795 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 144 | $10,762 |
| Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC | 3 | $1,406 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $409 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 6 | $138 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $53 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $44 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $22 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Dysis Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ACESSA PROVU SYSTEM$900,170
- Acessa$263,875
- Da Vinci Surgical System$103,591
- MYOSURE TISSUE REMOVAL DEVICE$120
- CoolSeal Generator$118
How this compares
$1,279,015 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,099 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized | 126 | $2,272 |
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 11 | $512 |
| Np ThyroidThyroid,pork | 11 | $247 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Austin
- Devin GarzaAustin$2M
- Melissa WinnAustin$1.1M
- Laura DowningAustin$464K
- Ana EduardoAustin$303K
- Stephanie ReichAustin$249K
- Renu ChalasaniAustin$156K
- Amir JazaeriHouston$19.5M
- Shannon WestinHouston$17.3M
- Monica LopezFort Worth$8.1M
- Cynthia RobbinsFort Worth$7.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.