Alexander Mericli, MD
Plastic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1023252319
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $101,526 of the $124,817 with a category attached, or 81.3%. Mentor Worldwide LLC accounts for 62.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among plastic surgery clinicians in TX 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 190 payments — averaging $656.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$78K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$28K
- AbbVie$11K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$2K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$1K
- plus $3K from 10 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $6354.98 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.
- AbbVie$64K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$101,52681%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,6605%
- Travel & lodging$6,4545%
- Food & beverage$11,1359%
- Education$420%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 83 | $77,751 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $27,820 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 47 | $10,525 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 17 | $2,411 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $1,879 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $1,293 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $741 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $588 |
| Axogen | 4 | $414 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 4 | $377 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $295 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $183 |
| Stryker | 1 | $160 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $158 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 2 | $130 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $92 |
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.
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$57,718
- MENTOR CPX 2 Breast Tissue Expander$18,878
- MENTOR MemoryShape Breast Implant$15,241
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$10,308
- REVOLVE$2,340
- CODMAN CERTAS$1,770
- SURGIMEND$1,770
- ALLODERM$1,508
- Ovitex$1,454
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$1,200
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$630
- MATRIXCOMBO$418
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$230
- 1788$160
- Phasix Mesh$159
- Irrisept$158
- NA$145
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$142
- NATRELLE$142
- MATRIXMANDIBLE$131
How this compares
$124,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 337 plastic surgery providers in Texas.
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 Houston
- Younghoon ChoHouston$1.2M
- David AdelmanHouston$405K
- Warren EllsworthHouston$284K
- Camille CashHouston$212K
- Robert YarishHouston$180K
- Kristy HamiltonHouston$70K
- Jenny NguyenHouston$45K
- Patrick HsuHouston$34K
- Anthony EchoHouston$27K
- Matthew GreivesHouston$26K
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.