Ahmed Suliman, MD
Plastic Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1013169085
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $18,448 of the $30,450 with a category attached, or 60.6%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 56.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $18,439, more than ten times the $1,640 reported in 2019. Among plastic surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 108 payments — averaging $281.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$17K
- AbbVie$3K
- Sientra, Inc.$3K
- Vertex$2K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$1K
- Biom'up France SAS$700
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,44861%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7002%
- Travel & lodging$2,1607%
- Food & beverage$9,14230%
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. | 8 | $17,190 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 29 | $3,023 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 23 | $3,011 |
| Vertex | 1 | $1,660 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $1,445 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $700 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 7 | $501 |
| Stryker | 1 | $371 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 5 | $353 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $327 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $267 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $191 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $165 |
| Tepha Inc | 1 | $161 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $159 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $156 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $153 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $125 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 5 | $118 |
| BD | 1 | $97 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $77 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $37 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Innovation Technologies 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.
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$16,788
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$16,788
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$2,760
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,743
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$1,379
- HemoBlast Bellows$834
- OviTex 2S$666
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$665
- DERMACELL$371
- SPY TECHNOLOGY$371
- ALLODERM$272
- Restrata Wound Matrix$267
- GalaFLEX$161
- Novosorb BTM$146
- BOTOX$141
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$140
- INTEGRA$138
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$137
- GORE ENFORM Biomaterial$125
- PERMEADERM$124
How this compares
$30,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 780 plastic surgery providers in California.
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 San Diego
- Salvatore PacellaSan Diego$517K
- John ApostolidesSan Diego$460K
- James ChaoSan Diego$328K
- Jason TorantoSan Diego$73K
- Christopher ReidSan Diego$66K
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.5M
- Vipul DevBakersfield$1.1M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$836K
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$570K
- Hani SbitanySan Francisco$510K
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.