Amber Leis, MD
Plastic Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1649442328
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.6%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Axogen accounts for 77.3% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $45,676 and has fallen 59.9% since, to $18,319 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in MO 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 226 payments — averaging $590.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$103K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$18K
- Biocircuit Technologies Inc$4K
- AbbVie$1K
- Sientra, Inc.$1K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$1K
- plus $4K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,53821%
- Speaking & faculty fees$74,22556%
- Travel & lodging$12,79210%
- Food & beverage$18,79914%
- Education$1200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 94 | $103,192 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 34 | $18,302 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 5 | $3,766 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $1,412 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 13 | $1,195 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 9 | $1,190 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 8 | $851 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $530 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 4 | $457 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 3 | $454 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $334 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $271 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $247 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $155 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $145 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $125 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $119 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $83 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $64 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Medline Industries LP | 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.
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$77,306
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$67,841
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$67,841
- AXOGUARD$20,875
- Checkpoint Stimulators$17,696
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$17,676
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$17,676
- Nerve Tape$2,883
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$1,035
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$579
- OviTex 2S$558
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$545
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$539
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$497
- INTEGRA$462
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$454
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$283
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$235
- Novosorb BTM$191
- XIAFLEX$162
How this compares
$133,473 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 88 plastic surgery providers in Missouri.
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 Saint Louis
- Donald BuckSaint Louis$945K
- Nicholas CalottaSaint Louis$47K
- Justin SacksSaint Louis$36K
- Rachel AnolikSaint Louis$33K
- Dennis NguyenSaint Louis$32K
- Alexander LinSaint Louis$31K
- Robert HaganSaint Louis$23K
- Ketan SharmaSaint Louis$22K
- Michael CurtisSaint Louis$21K
- Kelly CurrieSaint Louis$18K
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.