Abigail Chaffin, MD
Plastic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1962682112
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.3%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated accounts for 77.2% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $91,489 and has fallen 65.3% since, to $31,788 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in LA 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 377 payments — averaging $753.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$219K
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$44K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$3K
- AbbVie$3K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$2K
- KCI USA, Inc.$2K
- plus $11K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$123,12443%
- Speaking & faculty fees$116,91841%
- Travel & lodging$30,31611%
- Food & beverage$13,7335%
- Education$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 133 | $219,228 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 37 | $44,454 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 11 | $2,697 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 102 | $2,563 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $2,400 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 9 | $2,153 |
| BD | 6 | $2,085 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 7 | $1,471 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $1,138 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 9 | $596 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $565 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $456 |
| Stryker | 1 | $426 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $419 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 3 | $414 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $400 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $381 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 6 | $361 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $335 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 4 | $268 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $242 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $185 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $176 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $139 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 2 | $132 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $53 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- VASHE WOUND SOLUTION 250 ML (8.5 FL OZ) FLIP TOP CAP$43,824
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$2,400
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,406
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,369
- OviTex 2S$1,136
- VAC VERAFLO$1,067
- SNAP$850
- V.A.C. VIA$850
- INTEGRA$756
- ALLODERM$530
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$456
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$456
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$426
- RECELL$414
- Product in Development$400
- RENASYS TOUCH$338
- OMNIGRAFT$302
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$302
- MATRIXCOMBO$296
- Cohealyx$268
How this compares
$284,106 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 49 plastic surgery providers in Louisiana.
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 New Orleans
- Shoichiro TanakaNew Orleans$20K
- Meredith CollinsNew Orleans$11K
- Mark StalderNew Orleans$8K
- Christopher GoodenoughNew Orleans$8K
- Radbeh TorabiNew Orleans$5K
- Adam HauchNew Orleans$5K
- Prasanth PatchaNew Orleans$5K
- Hugo St HilaireNew Orleans$4K
- John HoltropNew Orleans$4K
- Russell HendrickNew Orleans$1K
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.