Christopher Smith, DO
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1194133504
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,274 of the $5,439 with a category attached, or 78.6%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Mentor Worldwide LLC at 31.1% of the total.
Across 72 payments — averaging $75.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$380
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$303
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$233
- Organogenesis Inc.$231
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,16521%
- Food & beverage$4,27479%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 33 | $1,692 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,111 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $380 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $303 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $233 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $231 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $223 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $179 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $164 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $127 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $121 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $115 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $114 |
| Axogen | 2 | $60 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$893
- INTEGRA$855
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$774
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$668
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$285
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$223
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$223
- Irrisept$179
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$164
- OMNIGRAFT$153
- HemoBlast Bellows$142
- PRIMATRIX$133
- MENTOR CPX 2 Breast Tissue Expander$132
- ALLODERM$127
- PICO 14$121
- RENASYS TOUCH$121
- RECELL$118
- Cohealyx$118
- PERMEADERM$118
- Restrata Wound Matrix$117
How this compares
$5,439 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 45 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Louisiana.
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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.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in New Orleans
- Omer KaymakcalanNew Orleans$10K
- Suma MaddoxNew Orleans$6K
- William AukermanNew Orleans$6K
- Vidhur SohiniNew Orleans$5K
- Christopher BabycosNew Orleans$5K
- Daniel YooNew Orleans$4K
- Michael MosesNew Orleans$4K
- Katherine ChiassonNew Orleans$3K
- Heath CharvetNew Orleans$3K
- Stacy HendersonNew Orleans$3K
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.