Brian Showalter, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Charlottesville, VANPI 1447415625
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 36 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $2,384.
Across 36 payments — averaging $67.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$470
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$469
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$303
- Tepha Inc$302
- Sientra, Inc.$248
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$243
- plus $397 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,432100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $470 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 7 | $469 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $303 |
| Tepha Inc | 4 | $302 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 6 | $248 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 4 | $243 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $166 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $99 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $82 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $35 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$2,432 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 77 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Virginia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 13 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Charlottesville
- Victoria VastineCharlottesville$12K
- Maurice NahabedianMc Lean$828K
- Mark VenturiMc Lean$356K
- Neil ZemmelRichmond$38K
- Lauren NigroRichmond$28K
- Burton SundinRichmond$23K
- Vinod ChopraChantilly$19K
- Alexander SailonVirginia Beach$19K
- Samita GoyalGlen Allen$13K
- Alexandra TiltVirginia Beach$13K
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.