Chandra Ellis, MD
Surgical Critical Care · San Francisco, CANPI 1689860389
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,503 of the $13,226 with a category attached, or 87.0%. Avita Medical Americas, LLC accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,289 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $332 in 2025. Among surgical critical care clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 36 payments — averaging $367.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$8K
- Vericel Corporation$3K
- Access Pro Medical, LLC$493
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$290
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$205
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$136
- plus $368 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,50387%
- Food & beverage$1,72313%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 7 | $8,434 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $3,300 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 5 | $493 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $290 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $205 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $136 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $115 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $108 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $48 |
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.
- Epicel$3,300
- RECELL$1,250
- Matriderm$249
- AMNIOEXCEL$130
- TCC-EZ$130
- OMNIGRAFT$130
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$130
- PRIMATRIX$130
- ARTISS$108
How this compares
$13,226 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 141 surgical critical care providers in California.
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.
Other surgical critical care in San Francisco
- Michael FarrellSan Francisco$4K
- Woon Cho KimSan Francisco$2K
- Aaron StrumwasserLynwood$200K
- Demetrios DemetriadesLos Angeles$192K
- David SpainPalo Alto$117K
- Brian LugoPasadena$61K
- Matthew BloomSan Jose$42K
- Scott CunneenLos Angeles$35K
- Nicholas NissenLos Angeles$26K
- Alan PangFresno$22K
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.