Stephen Settle, MD
Vascular Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1982628137
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 58.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $16,620 and has fallen 83.4% since, to $2,760 in 2025.
Across 232 payments — averaging $160.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$22K
- Medtronic$8K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$3K
- Reflow Medical Inc$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$743
- Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.$336
- plus $1K from 8 others
Across 32 payments — averaging $5106.06 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.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$81K
- Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.$74K
- Medtronic$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,12027%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,90010%
- Travel & lodging$7,25020%
- Food & beverage$15,75142%
- Education$1610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 81 | $21,622 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 41 | $8,319 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 57 | $3,216 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 16 | $1,738 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 7 | $743 |
| Laminate Medical Technologies Inc. | 2 | $336 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $304 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $268 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 10 | $232 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $140 |
| BD | 1 | $131 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $62 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $54 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$9,841
- IN.PACT Admiral$5,746
- ACUSEAL Vascular Graft$4,007
- C3 Delivery System$1,257
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$1,192
- Acrobat$900
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$884
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$864
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$507
- Abre$454
- GORE ACUSEAL Vascular Graft$440
- Penumbra System$394
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$312
- Indigo System$298
- GORE PROPATEN Vascular Graft$290
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$269
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$256
- EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$226
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$177
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$177
How this compares
$37,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 347 vascular surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $255 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Austin
- Mazin FotehAustin$1.6M
- Pedro TeixeiraAustin$40K
- Gregory PearlDallas$2.3M
- Alan LumsdenHouston$742K
- Stephen HohmannDallas$499K
- Michael SiahDallas$392K
- Gustavo OderichHouston$319K
- Jean BismuthHouston$243K
- Carlos TimaranDallas$231K
- Dennis GableDallas$211K
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.