Clark Schierle, MD
Plastic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1366403156
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.3%), gifts and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 39.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,363 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $631 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in IL 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 163 payments — averaging $97.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$6K
- Lumenis, Inc$3K
- Tepha Inc$1K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$1K
- Merz North America, Inc.$969
- Davol Inc.$639
- plus $3K from 19 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $607.14 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Motiva USA, LLC$4K
- Sientra, Inc.$250
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00019%
- Food & beverage$7,52847%
- Gifts$5,40034%
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) | 59 | $6,329 |
| Lumenis, Inc | 1 | $3,000 |
| Tepha Inc | 21 | $1,259 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 11 | $1,084 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 7 | $969 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $639 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 20 | $570 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 6 | $504 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $227 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $226 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $200 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 7 | $150 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $147 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $141 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $40 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Axogen | 1 | $20 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| 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.
- NATRELLE$5,400
- GalaFLEX$1,177
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$442
- Motiva Implant Matrix$373
- Phasix Mesh$268
- Balloon Sheath with Dilator$176
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$155
- DAXXIFY$150
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$147
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$147
- Cohealyx$141
- PERMEADERM$141
- RECELL$141
How this compares
$15,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 191 plastic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 surgery in Chicago
- Steven DayanChicago$1.2M
- Marco EllisChicago$225K
- Robert GalianoChicago$123K
- Michael LeeChicago$109K
- Lawrence IteldChicago$36K
- Peter GeldnerChicago$34K
- David HillChicago$28K
- Summer HansonChicago$18K
- Steven LanierChicago$17K
- Jeffrey WeinzweigChicago$11K
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.