Christopher Bates, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Laguna Beach, WANPI 1730524596
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.6%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 55.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,165, 9.6 times the $746 reported in 2019. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in WA 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 179 payments — averaging $94.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$9K
- Motiva USA, LLC$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Sientra, Inc.$734
- TELA Bio, Inc.$546
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$396
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50015%
- Travel & lodging$4,57627%
- Food & beverage$9,74058%
- Gifts$871%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 120 | $9,420 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 10 | $3,344 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,119 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 7 | $734 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $546 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 8 | $396 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $373 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $265 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $202 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Axogen | 2 | $112 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Vertex | 2 | $56 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $37 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
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.
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$8,397
- Motiva Implant Matrix$2,988
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$2,347
- REVOLVE$2,347
- BOTOX$763
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$571
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$325
- Phasix Mesh$233
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$231
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$231
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$152
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$150
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$140
- OviTex 2S$139
- NATRELLE$115
- Walter$113
- BOTOX COSMETIC$106
How this compares
$16,903 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 63 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Washington.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $44 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $44 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 24 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Laguna Beach
- Vincent MuonekeBurien$84K
- Fredric SternBellevue$38K
- Srinivas SusarlaSeattle$32K
- Kristin TarbetBellevue$30K
- Javad SajanSeattle$21K
- Sepehr EgrariBellevue$19K
- Joseph GrussSeattle$15K
- Yusha LiuSeattle$14K
- Frederick EhretTacoma$12K
- Rikesh ParikhBellevue$12K
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.