Benjamin Kittinger, MD
Plastic Surgery · Owensboro, KYNPI 1649567355
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,856 of the $3,943 with a category attached, or 72.4%. AbbVie accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,684 and has fallen 55.7% since, to $746 in 2025.
Across 106 payments — averaging $37.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$168
- Edwards Lifesciences$101
- Johnson & Johnson$100
- TELA Bio, Inc.$60
- Motiva USA, LLC$32
- plus $60 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08728%
- Food & beverage$2,85672%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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) | 91 | $3,422 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $168 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $101 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $100 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $60 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Dermira, 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.
- ALLODERM$1,334
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$168
How this compares
$3,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 48 plastic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 49 | $380 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 33 | $109 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 22 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Owensboro
- Janae KittingerOwensboro$3K
- Gerald EddsOwensboro$3K
- Zach BarnesOwensboro$514
- David KirnLexington$3.1M
- Michael CalobraceLouisville$574K
- Sean MaguireLouisville$74K
- Stephen SchantzLexington$32K
- Marc SalzmanLouisville$29K
- Nana MizuguchiLouisville$21K
- Chester MaysLouisville$19K
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.