Charlie Chen
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1861717647
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 70 payments — averaging $64.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sientra, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$870
- Lumenis BE Inc$251
- KCI USA, Inc.$191
- Apyx Medical Corporation$162
- Polynovo North America LLC$153
- plus $980 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,480100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sientra, Inc. | 13 | $1,874 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 23 | $870 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $251 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $191 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 3 | $162 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $153 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $130 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $120 |
| BD | 1 | $97 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 2 | $94 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $93 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 4 | $59 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Sensus Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $16 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Tepha Inc | 1 | $11 |
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
$4,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 349 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in California.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.