Benjamin Lam, DO
Plastic Surgery · Newtown, PANPI 1114980380
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,862 of the $10,237 with a category attached, or 86.6%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merz North America, Inc. at 33.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,939 and has fallen 79.0% since, to $617 in 2025.
Across 152 payments — averaging $67.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merz North America, Inc.$3K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Sientra, Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$858
- Smith+Nephew$682
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4775%
- Travel & lodging$8979%
- Food & beverage$8,86287%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merz North America, Inc. | 34 | $3,461 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $1,289 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,119 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 10 | $1,042 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 28 | $858 |
| Smith+Nephew | 31 | $682 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $390 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 7 | $353 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $237 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $141 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Axogen | 1 | $107 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 6 | $100 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $71 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $66 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Progenacare Global, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- XEOMIN$1,880
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$1,022
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$1,022
- MemoryShape Breast Implants$1,022
- SILTEX Breast Implants$1,022
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$740
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$600
- ASCLERA$316
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$273
- GRAFIX PL$235
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$163
- STRAVIX PL$134
- STRAVIX MESH$134
- OASIS MICRO$134
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$124
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$110
- Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$110
- DSUVIA$110
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$107
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$107
How this compares
$10,237 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 196 plastic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $88 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Newtown
- Robert SkalickyNewtown$9K
- John FischerPhiladelphia$3.3M
- Suhail KanchwalaPhiladelphia$1.4M
- Stephen KovachPhiladelphia$825K
- Ivona PercecPhiladelphia$534K
- Evan KatzelPhiladelphia$338K
- Paul GlatPhiladelphia$325K
- Shaun MendenhallPhiladelphia$173K
- William ScarlettBensalem$133K
- Andrea MoreiraPittsburgh$133K
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.