Cathy Tang
Plastic Surgery · Orange, CANPI 1275858821
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 86 payments — averaging $127.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$3K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$3K
- Sientra, Inc.$877
- TELA Bio, Inc.$665
- AbbVie$662
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$447
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50023%
- Travel & lodging$1,41913%
- Food & beverage$6,59160%
- Education$1201%
- Other$3183%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 18 | $3,046 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 5 | $2,954 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 9 | $877 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $665 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $662 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 7 | $447 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $384 |
| Surgical Innovation Associates, Inc. | 1 | $318 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 5 | $281 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $238 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 2 | $238 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $135 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $132 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $131 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $25 |
| Stryker | 1 | $23 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Dermira, 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.
- Checkpoint Stimulators$2,857
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$2,771
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$783
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$429
- INTEGRA$417
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$399
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$247
- PRIMATRIX$245
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$245
- Phasix Mesh$223
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$150
- Motiva Implant Matrix$142
- GRAFIX PL$132
- EXPAREL$131
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$125
- FARXIGA$125
- FASENRA$113
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$106
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$106
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$106
How this compares
$10,948 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 780 plastic surgery providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 16 | $154 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Orange
- Gregory EvansOrange$43K
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.6M
- Dennis AndersonSan Bernardino$1.3M
- Vipul DevBakersfield$1.1M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$919K
- Anshu GuptaEncinitas$682K
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$623K
- Salvatore PacellaSan Diego$517K
- Hani SbitanySan Francisco$510K
- John ApostolidesSan Diego$460K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.