Caroline Clarke, MD
Plastic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1104078781
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 107 payments — averaging $77.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Axogen$1K
- AbbVie$910
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$721
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,10925%
- Food & beverage$6,17175%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 13 | $1,552 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 23 | $1,465 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $1,363 |
| Axogen | 9 | $1,098 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $910 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 10 | $721 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $304 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 6 | $225 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $181 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $141 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $130 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Mckesson Medical-surgical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Stryker | 1 | $23 |
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.
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,268
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$921
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$921
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$921
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$921
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$921
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$720
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$653
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$391
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$304
- ALLODERM$277
- PHASIX$258
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$181
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$132
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$131
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$130
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$130
How this compares
$8,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 337 plastic surgery providers in Texas.
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 | 31 | $191 |
| Cephalexin | 30 | $119 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Houston
- Younghoon ChoHouston$1.3M
- David AdelmanHouston$405K
- Warren EllsworthHouston$359K
- Anthony EchoHouston$322K
- Camille CashHouston$227K
- Alexander MericliHouston$188K
- Robert YarishHouston$180K
- Kristy HamiltonHouston$70K
- Mark ClemensHouston$46K
- Jenny NguyenHouston$45K
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.