Akhil Seth, MD
Plastic Surgery · Northbrook, ILNPI 1215181011
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.6%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 61.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,182, more than ten times the $304 reported in 2019.
Across 72 payments — averaging $179.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$8K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$3K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Sientra, Inc.$327
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$128
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$110
- plus $581 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,28549%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,86330%
- Travel & lodging$3563%
- Food & beverage$2,42919%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 36 | $7,975 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 3 | $2,550 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $1,263 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 4 | $327 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $128 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 4 | $110 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $99 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $89 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $59 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Vertex | 2 | $39 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $37 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Axogen | 1 | $14 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $12 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$12,933 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 191 plastic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 | 13 | $77 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Northbrook
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- Steven DayanChicago$1.2M
- Saeed ChowdhryOak Lawn$403K
- Marco EllisChicago$225K
- Robert GalianoChicago$123K
- Theresa CamberisArlington Heights$113K
- Michael LeeChicago$109K
- Karol GutowskiGlenview$53K
- Michael OgilvieOak Lawn$45K
- Renee BurkeHoffman Estates$43K
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.