Aparna Vijayasekaran
Plastic Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1194981787
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (36.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by RTI Surgical, Inc at 37.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,550 and has fallen 88.8% since, to $398 in 2025.
Across 28 payments — averaging $238.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- RTI Surgical, Inc$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$700
- Axogen$611
- Tepha Inc$351
- Sientra, Inc.$333
- plus $838 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,90028%
- Travel & lodging$1,35820%
- Food & beverage$2,41836%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 4 | $2,484 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $1,358 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $700 |
| Axogen | 6 | $611 |
| Tepha Inc | 3 | $351 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $333 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $273 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 2 | $166 |
| BD | 1 | $139 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $135 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $126 |
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.
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$2,484
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,333
- Product in Development$700
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$548
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$333
- GalaFLEX$304
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$221
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$221
- Phasix Mesh$139
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$126
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$101
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$101
How this compares
$6,676 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 106 plastic surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 Rochester
- David ShaferRochester$1.5M
- Steven MoranRochester$277K
- Kitty WuRochester$18K
- Arif ChaudhryRochester$18K
- Luis AntezanaRochester$12K
- Cole HolanRochester$11K
- Samir MardiniRochester$10K
- Khaled AlameddineRochester$10K
- Lucas Kreutz RodriguesRochester$9K
- Steven JacobsonRochester$8K
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.