Timothy Vachris
Sports Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1285872143
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 3 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Gilead. That places this record below the midpoint for sports medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $1,700.
Across 3 payments — averaging $14.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$44
Across 75,288 payments — averaging $75.90 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$4.9M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$363K
- Merck$362K
- AstraZeneca$44K
- Pfizer$25K
- Dynavax Technologies Corporation$6K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$44100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 3 | $44 |
How this compares
$44 in reported general payments places this provider in the 5th percentile of 437 sports medicine providers in Texas.
Other sports medicine in Austin
- John McDonaldAustin$499K
- Douglas ElenzAustin$129K
- Darryl ThomasAustin$37K
- James WalkerAustin$31K
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- James GregoryHouston$565K
- James McKinleyTyler$305K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.