William Austen, MD
Plastic Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1649269531
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.5%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Sientra, Inc. accounts for 84.9% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $65,573 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $3,974 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in MA 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 106 payments — averaging $1419.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sientra, Inc.$128K
- Novo Nordisk AS$15K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$4K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$475
- Axogen$426
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$85,01156%
- Speaking & faculty fees$54,59336%
- Travel & lodging$3,6732%
- Food & beverage$7,2045%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sientra, Inc. | 36 | $127,711 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 5 | $14,769 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 23 | $4,272 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 14 | $1,319 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 9 | $475 |
| Axogen | 3 | $426 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $388 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $214 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| BD | 2 | $158 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $156 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $146 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$127,497
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$3,333
- INTEGRA$2,628
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$990
- PRIMATRIX$647
- Kerecis SurgiClose$563
- Irrisept$388
- OMNIGRAFT$343
- SURGIMEND$343
- OviTex 2S$321
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$271
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$217
- Kerecis GraftGuide$141
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$125
How this compares
$150,482 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 113 plastic surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 plastic surgery in Boston
- Daniel DelvecchioBoston$141K
- Edward KobraeiBoston$78K
- Samuel LinBoston$72K
- Katherine CarruthersBoston$55K
- Swapnil KachareBoston$26K
- Justin McCartyBoston$24K
- Bernard LeeBoston$8K
- Fatemeh MirzamohammadiBoston$6K
- Sarah PersingBoston$6K
- Joseph FirrioloBoston$4K
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.